From the Thomson Reuters Foundation, a welcome email describes the situation in South Africa and then turns to global support: I’m getting in touch to share some new reports and resources to support media freedom work in East and Southern Africa. Journalists who hold power to account are increasingly being targeted through “lawfare” tactics that silence, intimidate and financially…
Brian Krebs reports: Federal authorities have arrested and indicted a 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier on suspicion of being Kiberphant0m, a cybercriminal who has been selling and leaking sensitive customer call records stolen earlier this year from AT&T and Verizon. As first reported by KrebsOnSecurity last month, the accused is a communications specialist who was recently stationed in South Korea….
Customers have recognized Sophos for the 4th consecutive time
Jan Vermeulen reports: Misdirected internal emails that expose personal information can trigger mandatory data breach reporting under South Africa’s data privacy law, POPIA, even when the disclosure was accidental. Armand Swart, Hlonelwa Lutuli, and Isabella Keeves from Werksmans Attorneys said an Information Regulator enforcement notice against Central Johannesburg TVET College confirmed this position. The case……
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware dubbed Speagle that hijacks the functionality and infrastructure of a legitimate program called Cobra DocGuard. “Speagle is designed to surreptitiously harvest sensitive information from infected computers and transmit it to a Cobra DocGuard server that has been compromised by the attackers, masking the data exfiltration process as legitimate
On May 20, 2025, CNN reported that a ransomware attack had triggered a “system-wide technology outage” at Kettering Adventist Health in Ohio. Disclosures by Kettering Health would later explain that the healthcare system had been attacked by InterLock, a ransomware gang who were threatening to destroy data and publish data if their demands were not……
Threat actors with ties to China have been attributed to a novel campaign that compromised an ArcGIS system and turned it into a backdoor for more than a year. The activity, per ReliaQuest, is the handiwork of a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group called Flax Typhoon, which is also tracked as Ethereal Panda and RedJuliett. According…
