Kaspersky has identified a scam campaign exploiting the Israeli-Hamas conflict whereby cybercriminals are attempting to capitalise on people's willingness to aid those impacted by deceiving potential victims into making donations - ultimately leading to the theft of...

As if Covid-19 wasn't enough of a crisis, the number of cyber-attacks on frontline healthcare responders have surged at the same time as the global pandemic, trending upwards almost entirely in line with case numbers. By March 2020, phishing emails had spiked by over...

Global spending on artificial intelligence (AI) is forecast to double over the next four years, growing from $50,1-billion in 2020 to more than $110-billion in 2024. According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Artificial Intelligence Spending...

The Covid-19 pandemic continued to impact the global mobile phone industry, as worldwide sales of smartphones to end users totaled 295-million units, a decline of 20,4% in the second quarter of 2020, according to Gartner. Among the top five smartphone vendors, Samsung...

Environmental, social and governance criteria (ESG) are not yet fully integrated into banks' strategies around the world. More responsible banking practices can be achieved if banks make the criteria part of their risk management frameworks and measure it more...

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) reported on August 25 that consumer price inflation increased from 2,2% year-on-year (y-o-y) in June to 3,2% y-o-y in August. Article by Lullu Krugel, chief economist for PwC Strategy Africa, and Dr Christie Viljoen, PwC...

Covid-19 related threats were the single largest type of threat in the first half of the year. In just six months, Trend Micro blocked 8,8-million Covid-19-related threats, nearly 92% of which were email-based. Cybercriminals shifted their focus from January through...

The World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos is the latest major event to be disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. The organisation has decided to reschedule the 2021 event to later in the year. According to Adrian Monck, MD: public engagement at the World...

Kaspersky researchers have published a detailed overview of DeathStalker, a "mercenary" advanced persistent threat (APT) group that has been leveraging efficient espionage attacks on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the financial sector since at least...