News from Middle East & Africa
Organizations continue to be at high risk from cybercrime in Africa, despite law enforcement takedowns of cybercriminal syndicates in Nigeria and other African nations.
Amateurish financial scams are common across Africa, and Namibia's influential former first lady, Monica Geingos, has emerged as a particularly effective host body for these messages.
Globally, security researchers and whistleblowers face increasingly hostile laws and judiciaries that are ready to levy fines and prison sentences.
News from Asia Pacific
At Black Hat and DEF CON, cybersecurity experts were asked to game out how Taiwan could protect its communications and power infrastructure in case of invasion by China.
Advanced persistent threat group PlushDaemon, active since 2019, is using a sophisticated modular backdoor to collect data from infected systems in South Korea.
The advanced persistent threat (APT) group is likely India-based and targeting individuals with connections to the country's intelligence community.
