National treasury said it found malware in its IT environment this week that might be linked to the recent attack on Microsoft infrastructure using a vulnerability in the software giant’s SharePoint software. According to a statement on Wednesday, treasury’s systems are up and running, suggesting the attack was not successful. “On Tuesday afternoon, national treasury…
Musa Masungwini, senior system engineer for data protection solutions at Dell Technologies South Africa. Research shows a growing trend of attacks on PCs, and according to a CrowdStrike report, file-less malware that frequently targets memory on the PC comprises 75% of attacks. So claims Musa Masungwini, senior system engineer for data protection solutions at Dell…
“Someone, somewhere is having data exfiltrated from their machines as we speak,” says Volodymyr Diachenko, co-founder of the cybersecurity consultancy SecurityDiscovery. Sarayut Thaneerat | Moment | Getty Images Cybercriminals have intensified their efforts to steal and sell online passwords, experts warn. The alarm comes after the discovery of online datasets containing billions of exposed account…
