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By Deeba Ahmed
Experian South Africa has confirmed the breach.
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Fraudsters stole more than $3.2 million from the banking division of South Africa’s post office, after – in a catastrophic breach of security – employees printed out the bank’s master key.
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Fraudsters stole more than $3.2 million from the banking division of South Africa’s post office, after – in a catastrophic breach of security – employees printed out the bank’s master key. According to South African media report… Continue reading Copied master key forces South African bank to replace 12 million cards
By Waqas
A government minister had their video conferencing hijacked with pornographic content.
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The human family tree is being shuffled around again. A new study suggests that Homo erectus existed 100,000 to 200,000 years earlier than previously thought, meaning they lived alongside species they were once thought to have descended from.Continue R… Continue reading Fossil skull reveals new overlap between ancient human species
By Sudais
The data includes sensitive information including one’s browsing history that ended up embarrassing a lot of users. Here’s what else was in there…
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Hackers attacked several key South African organizations last week, impacting everything from workers’ paychecks to 112 emergency calls “Not all treasure’s silver and gold, mate.” Jack Sparrow Johannesburg may be…
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A Shadow Kill Hackers attack that compromised the city’s network and shut down key services was the second ransom-related attack on the city in months. Continue reading City of Johannesburg, on Second Hit, Refuses to Pay Ransom
Johannesburg spent the weekend struggling to recover from its second malware attack this year as it took key services systems offline. Continue reading Ransomware with a difference as hackers threaten to release city data
It’s been a busy week for cybercriminals targeting organizations in South Africa. Multiple banks in the country have been hit by distributed denial-of-services attacks, while the country’s largest city, Johannesburg, is dealing with the second major breach to its network in three months. Public-facing services of multiple financial institutions were on Wednesday hit by a wave of “ransom-driven” DDoS attacks, according to the South African Banking Risk Information Centre (SABRIC), an association of banks focused on combating crime. The attackers aren’t deploying ransomware, but instead are using DDoS attacks to demand a fee to stop inundating victims with web traffic. SABRIC did not disclose the size of the extortion fee. “These attacks started with a ransom note which was delivered via email to both unattended as well as staff email addresses, all of which were publicly available,” SABRIC said in statement, adding that the attack was not confined to organizations in […]
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