The chilling methods of South Africa’s cyber crime cartels and cyber criminals are laid bare by Tiaan Lombard, a cybersecurity and intelligence expert. Speaking to BizNews, he says: “If I want to gain access to, let’s call it a banking system or a judicial system, whatever the case may be, it’s a matter of entering into the bank, leaving a flash drive in the toilets with a key holder and a couple of keys on it that not identifies me and somebody somewhere is going to pick that device up and stick it into their computer. And at that moment, you are compromised.” He says such devices can be ordered online to commit cyber crimes. “These are done by highly, highly skilled, organised cartels that know that South Africa does not have the ability to stop this..”
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