Compromise of Cyril Rampahosa's emails a huge threat to South Africa, warns Kaspersky

[Jan]

President Cyril Ramaphosa email hack a huge danger to South Africa

Russian information security firm Kaspersky warns that the alleged compromise of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s email account is a significant threat to South Africa.

“The impact of such a leak is extraordinary depending on the nature of communication within,” said Kaspersky senior security researcher Maher Yamout.

 

[MJAnderson]

L

 

[surface]

Hackers are going to be shocked once they hack Cyril's account.

 

[Death_By_Ebola]

Ja, like we need threat actors to destabilise the country. The ANC hates competition.

 

[Agent_Smith]

Hackers going to log into Cyril's email and see notifications from Facebook that Bheki liked a post, or spam emails for Cialis...

 

[blah99]

It will just be empty emails. The ANC doesn't know how technology works.

 

[LCBXX]

Where are the contents posted?

 

[Sapphiron]

Kry vir jou oom Cyril, nou weet jy hoe ons almal al voel.

 

[j4ck455]

In one of the screenshots, SpiderLog$ showed it could get into the defence and state security departments’ webmail interface.

Run for the hills, OWA has been hacked (again).

 

[Grubscrew]

The Russians hacked Cyril, they need friends during these dark times....

 

[Jade @ Absolute Hosting]

President Cyril Ramaphosa email hack a huge danger to South Africa

Russian information security firm Kaspersky warns that the alleged compromise of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s email account is a significant threat to South Africa.

“The impact of such a leak is extraordinary depending on the nature of communication within,” said Kaspersky senior security researcher Maher Yamout.

We should collect ID documents for every email recipient in South Africa - it’ll make things a lot safer for everyone…

 

[Vanessa13]

I guess he didn't get the memo. The country is already destabilised

 

[MagNorthDigital]

No need to hack it...