Surfshark study shows cybercriminals love SA

[Hanno Labuschagne]

Surfshark study shows cybercriminals love SA

South African residents are at a high risk of having their personal details exploited by malicious actors, according to research from Surfshark.

The study ranked South Africa sixth in the world when it comes to the nations most threatened by cybercrime, but its numbers are relatively low compared to the UK and the US.

The methodology behind the study included assigning figures for cyber threats, financial losses, and probability points to determine how likely residents of a country are to have their exposed data accessed and used maliciously.

 

[Solitude]

All criminals love SA.

 

[ShaunSA]

Malicious actors?

I doubt most of Hollywood know where SA is on the map

 

[FiestaST]

/This video is sponsored by Surfshark VPN.

 

[Virex]

 

[j4ck455]

The South African division of US-based consumer credit bureau TransUnion suffered an attack that exposed customer details, including telephone numbers, email addresses, identity numbers, and physical addresses.

That is incorrect, TransUnion has not suffered at all.

TransUnion negligently failed to secure access to data (personal information) that TransUnion has on millions of South Africans, it is millions of South Africans that will be suffering for many years as a result of TransUinon's negligence.

In August 2020, the South African Banking Risk Centre (Sabric) revealed that Experian had suffered a data leak.

Same thing with Experian, show me how/when/where Experian is suffering.

The Department of Justice (DoJ) suffered a ransomware attack in September 2021 that resulted in its systems being encrypted and going offline, and the exposure of at least 1,200 files.

The DoJ breach has not caused the DoJ suffering, it is people that suffered as a result of the DoJ being incompetent.

Transnet was the victim of a cyberattack that forced the company to declare force majeure at container terminals and adjust to the manual processing of cargo.

Transnet was incompetent, the rest of the country was the victim because goods in containers were not getting delivered due to the vastly slowed down manual processing.

 

[KleinBoontjie]

All criminals love SA.

Ja, it's like the header is like some kind of oxymoron

 

[hj007]

So if Transunion and Experian breaches were 50+million and 24 million respectively how did they get to any number less than 100% of South Africans being affected?