South African Toyota customers’ personal info possibly leaked after SMS provider breach
The company first started notifying customers about the incident via SMS and a notice on its website in late July 2026.
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South African companies have bigger concerns than getting attacked by a rogue AI
Cybersecurity expert Dimitri Fousekis discussed the risk that a rogue AI may one day attack a South African organisation.
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Top security company has a warning for online pirates in South Africa
The spread of malware using pirated software, SIM swapping and stolen device attacks are common cybercrime activity affecting South Africans according to a lead researcher at Kaspersky.
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OpenAI agent hacked its own master, broke into the Internet, and stole secret information
The attack of OpenAI’s agents on Hugging Face represented the crossing of a critical threshold of cybersecurity on the Internet.
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52% of South Africans risk having their IDs or passports stolen from their smartphones
52% of South Africans store identity documents or passports in easy to grab visual formats on their smartphones, raising security concerns.
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One of South Africa’s largest technology distributors suffers crippling network outage allegedly due to cyberattack
Rectron experienced a network outage that caused it to close all of its offices nationwide.
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South Africa hit by 8,850 cyberattacks per month
South African organisations were hit by 2,065 cyberattacks per week in June 2028, with government agencies being targeted the most.
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AI | cybersecurity | Kerrisa Varma | MDASH | Microsoft | Security
South African companies given access to exclusive Microsoft cyberdefence system
A select number of South African organisations have been given exclusive access to Microsoft’s new, advanced cybersecurity defence system.
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cybercrime | Cybernews | cybersecurity | data breach | data leak | Security
Historic 24-billion record data leak puts South Africans at risk
Cybersecurity experts warn South Africans online to change their passwords after a 24 billion record 8TB data leak was discovered recently.
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Amathole District Municipality | cybercrime | cybersecurity | eastern cape | Ghost Vulnerability | Security
District known as the cradle of democracy whose government has the worst cybersecurity in South Africa
The most poorly secured government network in South Africa belongs to the Amathole District Municipality in the Eastern Cape which has 94 “critical” vulnerabilities in a single server, some as old as from 2015.