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South Africa covers cybersecurity and information-security developments connected to South Africa, including incidents, policy, privacy, advisories, research, and news affecting organizations, public services, and digital systems in the area.
For practitioners, the tag provides geographic context for developments involving South Africa's organizations, services, partners, and users. Individual articles provide the specific technologies, threats, sectors, and operational implications relevant to each development.
A previously unknown threat actor has been observed targeting government and military entities in Southeast Asia, alongside a smaller cluster of managed service providers (MSPs) and hosting providers in the Philippines, Laos, Canada, South Africa, and the U.S., by exploiting the recently disclosed vulnerability in cPanel