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That is not a hypothetical. It is what Sophos found when it spent seven days watching its own endpoint telemetry in June 2026. AI coding agents, such as Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenAI Codex, were triggering detection rules designed to catch human attackers. Not because they were doing anything malicious. But because the things they […]

The most dangerous person in your organisation right now is probably not a hacker. It is a former employee whose account was never deactivated, a contractor with more access than their role requires, or an administrator whose credentials were quietly stolen three months ago and have been sitting in a criminal forum ever since. Identity […]

AI is already inside South African businesses. The question is no longer whether organisations are using it. The question is whether they know where, and whether they have any control over it. SS Consulting, a South African information security, cybersecurity and governance consultancy, has announced a strategic partnership with AIBound, the AI security control plane […]

Passing a penetration test does not mean you are secure. It means you were secure enough, on that day, against that scope, tested by those methods. That distinction matters more than most security reports will tell you. Penetration testing remains one of the most valuable tools in a cybersecurity programme. But in South Africa, where […]

South Africa’s largest supermarket retailer is the latest major brand to face the uncomfortable reality that old data does not simply go away. Pick n Pay this week confirmed a data breach involving customer records from its former on-demand delivery platform, originally known as Bottles and later rebranded as Pick n Pay asap!. The affected […]

SS-Consulting has always held a firm belief: that true cybersecurity competence is not built in a classroom or earned through a multiple-choice exam. It is forged through practice, pressure and the willingness to think the way an attacker thinks. It is with great pride that SS-Consulting announces its strategic partnership with OffSec, the global leader […]

For years, the cybersecurity conversation has centred on passwords. Use a strong one. Don’t reuse it. Add multi-factor authentication. It became the standard advice, repeated in boardrooms and IT policies across the world. It is still good advice. But attackers have largely moved past it. A shift has been quietly accelerating; rather than stealing your […]

There is a certain dark irony in watching cybercriminals become the victims. But the story of PCPJack is less a morality tale and more a warning about how chaotic and layered the modern threat environment has become. Here is what happened. An unknown group of attackers identified systems already compromised by TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime […]

There is something almost theatrical about Sam Altman publicly mocking Anthropic for restricting access to its cybersecurity tool Mythos, only to turn around days later and announce that OpenAI’s competing tool, Cyber, would be rolled out in exactly the same way. The irony would be funny if the stakes were not so high. But beyond […]

April 2026 has been a defining month for cybersecurity in South Africa. Within a two-week window, the country witnessed a sequence of high-profile incidents that, taken together, reveal something far more significant than a series of isolated attacks. They reveal a systemic vulnerability that runs through both the public and private sector. Standard Bank, Africa’s […]