Phishing remains the highest risk category for users and organizations in South Africa, accounting for 45.7% of detected threats. According to ESET Research’s latest Threat Report, this compares with a significantly lower 32.5% in Africa. The report summarizes the threat landscape trends observed in ESET telemetry and analyzed by ESET threat detection and research experts in the second half of 2025. “Phishing remains the leading initial access vector affecting South African companies,” says T
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The National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) in South Africa has confirmed that its laboratories are operational following a recent cyber-attack, although the automated distribution of test results to clinicians remains disrupted. In a statement released on Wednesday, the NHLS explained that its systems and infrastructure were compromised by the cyber-attack, affecting the automatic generation and delivery of laboratory reports to clinicians via WebView. Despite these challenges, urgent test
The head of Russia’s space agency has extended an offer to Moscow’s partners in the BRICS group Brazil, India, China, and South Africa to participate in constructing a joint module for its planned orbital space station, state media reported on 24 July 2023.
See: https://redskyalliance.org/xindustry/the-brics
Construction of the planned space station follows Moscow’s decision last year to end its decades-long partnership with NASA and withdraw from the aging International Space Station, one of th
Activity Summary - Week Ending on 29 July 2022:
- Red Sky Alliance identified 25,992 connections from new IP’s checking in with our Sinkholes
- Hetzner 10x
- Analysts identified 309 new IP addresses participating in various Botnets
- Ransomware UpDate
- Adversary-in-the-Middle - AiTM
- South Africa under Attack
- Mercenary Spyware
- T-Mobile
- US Electric Grid
- Kherson Ukraine
Link to full report: IR-22-210-002_weekly210.pdf
In the past several weeks, South Africa has experience violent riots in response to the arrest of its former president.[1] The unrest is having serious repercussions for the country's mining sector. The outbursts, located in the province of KwaZulu Natal, are hampering the activity of local mines, but also that of Durban and Richards Bay port terminals. On 22 July, a cyber-attack has directly disrupted the operation of South Africa’s busiest container terminal. It’s the largest on the Afric
