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South Africa accounted for 92% of all ransomware detections in Africa in 2025, according to INTERPOL’s African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026, with stolen passwords and outdated devices among the vulnerabilities that can give cybercriminals access to home and business networks.While detection figures are influenced by factors such as connectivity levels and reporting requirements, the report identifies South Africa as a primary target for ransomware activity on the continent.A ransomware attack often becomes visible only when a ransom note appears on a victim’s screen. However, by that stage, attackers may already have spent days or weeks inside a network, accessing and stealing valuable information.“The 92% tells you where ransomware got caught,” said Doros Hadjizenonos, Regional Director for Southern Africa at Fortinet.“By that stage the attacker had got in and very likely taken what they wanted weeks earlier. Locking the files is how they get paid, yes, but the part South Africans can most effectively do something about happens at the start.”Fortinet is among the partners whose threat data INTERPOL used in its report. Its FortiGuard Labs data shows criminals using automated tools to scan tens of thousands of systems per second for unpatched routers and exposed cloud services.The passwords a browser remembersINTERPOL found that malware detections in Southern Africa were heavily weighted towards infostealers and backdoors, which may be used to facilitate ransomware attacks at a later stage.An infostealer is malicious software that copies saved passwords and active login sessions from an infected computer before sending them to criminals. Victims may not realise their information has been compromised.Fortinet’s 2026 Global Threat Landscape Report found a further 79% increase in logs from infostealer infected systems available to criminals, following a 500% increase the previous year.These logs now account for 67% of datasets advertised and shared in dark web database markets, compared with about 6% for lists of leaked passwords. INTERPOL’s report also found that African origin material on dark web forums grew by 62% year on year, much of it consisting of identity documents and banking details.Hadjizenonos said a shared household computer could provide criminals with a route into a workplace network.“Picture a family laptop that a parent also uses for remote work,” he said. “A child installs a free game add on that carries an infostealer, while the browser already has the work email password saved, and the VPN login too. Nothing crashes because of the newly installed software, so nobody suspects anything, but weeks later someone buys that login and signs in to the employer’s network as if they work there.”Equipment that missed its updatesOutdated equipment and unpatched software provide another route into networks.According to INTERPOL’s report, South Africa accounted for 43.6% of the exploitable vulnerabilities detected by the Shadowserver Foundation across Africa in 2025. Among the most targeted weaknesses were outdated routers and unpatched virtual private networks (VPNs), which INTERPOL described as publicly known and well documented.Fortinet’s research found that the time between a critical software flaw becoming public and attackers exploiting it had fallen to as little as 24 to 48 hours, compared with four to five days in earlier reports.“A small business with one IT person, or none, used to have several days to patch a firewall,” Hadjizenonos said. “Now scanning software is hunting for the flaw before anyone in the office has potentially even read the advisory.”What households and businesses can doOctober is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and Hadjizenonos said there were practical steps households and organisations could take to reduce their exposure to cybercrime.For households, he recommended keeping work login details off shared devices and using a trusted password manager.“Turn on multi factor authentication wherever it’s available, because then a stolen password on its own gets the illicit buyer of the data nowhere,” he said.For organisations, he said internet facing equipment should be a priority, particularly firewalls and VPN gateways.“Patch what attackers can see from outside first, the firewalls and VPN gateways. Then find out which of your employees’ passwords and sessions are already for sale, because the people selling them won’t wait for your next audit,” he said.The figures highlight how ransomware threats can begin well before a business or household receives a ransom demand. Stolen credentials, compromised login sessions and equipment that has not been updated can provide attackers with access long before victims realise their systems are at 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Locking the files is how they get paid, yes, but the part South Africans can most effectively do something about happens at the start.”\n\nFortinet is among the partners whose threat data INTERPOL used in its report. Its FortiGuard Labs data shows criminals using automated tools to scan tens of thousands of systems per second for unpatched routers and exposed cloud services.\n\nThe passwords a browser remembers\n\nINTERPOL found that malware detections in Southern Africa were heavily weighted towards infostealers and backdoors, which may be used to facilitate ransomware attacks at a later stage.\n\nAn infostealer is malicious software that copies saved passwords and active login sessions from an infected computer before sending them to criminals. Victims may not realise their information has been compromised.\n\nFortinet’s 2026 Global Threat Landscape Report found a further 79% increase in logs from infostealer infected systems available to criminals, following a 500% increase the previous year.\n\nThese logs now account for 67% of datasets advertised and shared in dark web database markets, compared with about 6% for lists of leaked passwords. INTERPOL’s report also found that African origin material on dark web forums grew by 62% year on year, much of it consisting of identity documents and banking details.\n\nHadjizenonos said a shared household computer could provide criminals with a route into a workplace network.\n\n“Picture a family laptop that a parent also uses for remote work,” he said. “A child installs a free game add on that carries an infostealer, while the browser already has the work email password saved, and the VPN login too. Nothing crashes because of the newly installed software, so nobody suspects anything, but weeks later someone buys that login and signs in to the employer’s network as if they work there.”\n\nEquipment that missed its updates\n\nOutdated equipment and unpatched software provide another route into networks.\n\nAccording to INTERPOL’s report, South Africa accounted for 43.6% of the exploitable vulnerabilities detected by the Shadowserver Foundation across Africa in 2025. Among the most targeted weaknesses were outdated routers and unpatched virtual private networks (VPNs), which INTERPOL described as publicly known and well documented.\n\nFortinet’s research found that the time between a critical software flaw becoming public and attackers exploiting it had fallen to as little as 24 to 48 hours, compared with four to five days in earlier reports.\n\n“A small business with one IT person, or none, used to have several days to patch a firewall,” Hadjizenonos said. “Now scanning software is hunting for the flaw before anyone in the office has potentially even read the advisory.”\n\nWhat households and businesses can do\n\nOctober is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and Hadjizenonos said there were practical steps households and organisations could take to reduce their exposure to cybercrime.\n\nFor households, he recommended keeping work login details off shared devices and using a trusted password manager.\n\n“Turn on multi factor authentication wherever it’s available, because then a stolen password on its own gets the illicit buyer of the data nowhere,” he said.\n\nFor organisations, he said internet facing equipment should be a priority, particularly firewalls and VPN gateways.\n\n“Patch what attackers can see from outside first, the firewalls and VPN gateways. Then find out which of your employees’ passwords and sessions are already for sale, because the people selling them won’t wait for your next audit,” he said.\n\nThe figures highlight how ransomware threats can begin well before a business or household receives a ransom demand. Stolen credentials, compromised login sessions and equipment that has not been updated can provide attackers with access long before victims realise their systems are at risk.\n\nashley.lechman@nationalmg.co.za\n\nTHE NATIONAL (https://thenational.co.za/)44:T15d5,\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSouth Africa accounted for 92% of all \u003ca href=\”https://thenational.co.za/search/?query=ransomware\” target=\”_blank\” rel=\”noopener\”\u003eransomware\u003c/a\u003e detections in Africa in 2025, according to INTERPOL’s African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026, with stolen passwords and outdated devices among the vulnerabilities that can give cybercriminals access to home and business networks.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhile detection figures are influenced by factors such as connectivity levels and reporting requirements, the report identifies South Africa as a primary target for ransomware activity on the continent.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA ransomware attack often becomes visible only when a ransom note appears on a victim’s screen. \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHowever, by that stage, attackers may already have spent days or weeks inside a network, accessing and stealing valuable information.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The 92% tells you where ransomware got caught,” said Doros Hadjizenonos, Regional Director for Southern Africa at Fortinet.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“By that stage the attacker had got in and very likely taken what they wanted weeks earlier. Locking the files is how they get paid, yes, but the part South Africans can most effectively do something about happens at the start.”\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFortinet is among the partners whose threat data INTERPOL used in its report. Its FortiGuard Labs data shows criminals using automated tools to scan tens of thousands of systems per second for unpatched routers and exposed cloud services.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eThe passwords a browser remembers\u003c/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eINTERPOL found that malware detections in Southern Africa were heavily weighted towards infostealers and backdoors, which may be used to facilitate ransomware attacks at a later stage.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn infostealer is malicious software that copies saved passwords and active login sessions from an infected computer before sending them to criminals. Victims may not realise their information has been compromised.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFortinet’s 2026 Global Threat Landscape Report found a further 79% increase in logs from infostealer infected systems available to criminals, following a 500% increase the previous year.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese logs now account for 67% of datasets advertised and shared in dark web database markets, compared with about 6% for lists of leaked passwords. INTERPOL’s report also found that African origin material on dark web forums grew by 62% year on year, much of it consisting of identity documents and banking details.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHadjizenonos said a shared household computer could provide criminals with a route into a workplace network.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Picture a family laptop that a parent also uses for remote work,” he said. “A child installs a free game add on that carries an infostealer, while the browser already has the work email password saved, and the VPN login too. Nothing crashes because of the newly installed software, so nobody suspects anything, but weeks later someone buys that login and signs in to the employer’s network as if they work there.”\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eEquipment that missed its updates\u003c/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOutdated equipment and unpatched software provide another route into networks.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAccording to INTERPOL’s report, South Africa accounted for 43.6% of the exploitable vulnerabilities detected by the Shadowserver Foundation across Africa in 2025. Among the most targeted weaknesses were outdated routers and unpatched virtual private networks (VPNs), which INTERPOL described as publicly known and well documented.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFortinet’s research found that the time between a critical software flaw becoming public and attackers exploiting it had fallen to as little as 24 to 48 hours, compared with four to five days in earlier reports.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“A small business with one IT person, or none, used to have several days to patch a firewall,” Hadjizenonos said. “Now scanning software is hunting for the flaw before anyone in the office has potentially even read the advisory.”\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat households and businesses can do\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOctober is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and Hadjizenonos said there were practical steps households and organisations could take to reduce their exposure to cybercrime.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor households, he recommended keeping work login details off shared devices and using a trusted password manager.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Turn on multi factor authentication wherever it’s available, because then a stolen password on its own gets the illicit buyer of the data nowhere,” he said.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor organisations, he said internet facing equipment should be a priority, particularly firewalls and VPN gateways.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Patch what attackers can see from outside first, the firewalls and VPN gateways. Then find out which of your employees’ passwords and sessions are already for sale, because the people selling them won’t wait for your next audit,” he said.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe figures highlight how ransomware threats can begin well before a business or household receives a ransom demand. Stolen credentials, compromised login sessions and equipment that has not been updated can provide attackers with access long before victims realise their systems are at risk.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eashley.lechman@nationalmg.co.za\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\”https://thenational.co.za/\” target=\”_blank\” rel=\”noopener\”\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE NATIONAL\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e45:T15d5,\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSouth Africa accounted for 92% of all \u003ca href=\”https://thenational.co.za/search/?query=ransomware\” target=\”_blank\” rel=\”noopener\”\u003eransomware\u003c/a\u003e detections in Africa in 2025, according to INTERPOL’s African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026, with stolen passwords and outdated devices among the vulnerabilities that can give cybercriminals access to home and business networks.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhile detection figures are influenced by factors such as connectivity levels and reporting requirements, the report identifies South Africa as a primary target for ransomware activity on the continent.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA ransomware attack often becomes visible only when a ransom note appears on a victim’s screen. \u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHowever, by that stage, attackers may already have spent days or weeks inside a network, accessing and stealing valuable information.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The 92% tells you where ransomware got caught,” said Doros Hadjizenonos, Regional Director for Southern Africa at Fortinet.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“By that stage the attacker had got in and very likely taken what they wanted weeks earlier. Locking the files is how they get paid, yes, but the part South Africans can most effectively do something about happens at the start.”\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFortinet is among the partners whose threat data INTERPOL used in its report. Its FortiGuard Labs data shows criminals using automated tools to scan tens of thousands of systems per second for unpatched routers and exposed cloud services.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eThe passwords a browser remembers\u003c/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eINTERPOL found that malware detections in Southern Africa were heavily weighted towards infostealers and backdoors, which may be used to facilitate ransomware attacks at a later stage.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn infostealer is malicious software that copies saved passwords and active login sessions from an infected computer before sending them to criminals. Victims may not realise their information has been compromised.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFortinet’s 2026 Global Threat Landscape Report found a further 79% increase in logs from infostealer infected systems available to criminals, following a 500% increase the previous year.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese logs now account for 67% of datasets advertised and shared in dark web database markets, compared with about 6% for lists of leaked passwords. INTERPOL’s report also found that African origin material on dark web forums grew by 62% year on year, much of it consisting of identity documents and banking details.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHadjizenonos said a shared household computer could provide criminals with a route into a workplace network.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Picture a family laptop that a parent also uses for remote work,” he said. “A child installs a free game add on that carries an infostealer, while the browser already has the work email password saved, and the VPN login too. Nothing crashes because of the newly installed software, so nobody suspects anything, but weeks later someone buys that login and signs in to the employer’s network as if they work there.”\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eEquipment that missed its updates\u003c/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOutdated equipment and unpatched software provide another route into networks.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAccording to INTERPOL’s report, South Africa accounted for 43.6% of the exploitable vulnerabilities detected by the Shadowserver Foundation across Africa in 2025. Among the most targeted weaknesses were outdated routers and unpatched virtual private networks (VPNs), which INTERPOL described as publicly known and well documented.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFortinet’s research found that the time between a critical software flaw becoming public and attackers exploiting it had fallen to as little as 24 to 48 hours, compared with four to five days in earlier reports.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“A small business with one IT person, or none, used to have several days to patch a firewall,” Hadjizenonos said. “Now scanning software is hunting for the flaw before anyone in the office has potentially even read the advisory.”\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat households and businesses can do\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOctober is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and Hadjizenonos said there were practical steps households and organisations could take to reduce their exposure to cybercrime.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor households, he recommended keeping work login details off shared devices and using a trusted password manager.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Turn on multi factor authentication wherever it’s available, because then a stolen password on its own gets the illicit buyer of the data nowhere,” he said.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor organisations, he said internet facing equipment should be a priority, particularly firewalls and VPN gateways.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Patch what attackers can see from outside first, the firewalls and VPN gateways. Then find out which of your employees’ passwords and sessions are already for sale, because the people selling them won’t wait for your next audit,” he said.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe figures highlight how ransomware threats can begin well before a business or household receives a ransom demand. Stolen credentials, compromised login sessions and equipment that has not been updated can provide attackers with access long before victims realise their systems are at risk.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eashley.lechman@nationalmg.co.za\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\”https://thenational.co.za/\” target=\”_blank\” rel=\”noopener\”\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHE NATIONAL\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e46:T1382,South Africa accounted for 92% of all ransomware (https://thenational.co.za/search/?query=ransomware) detections in Africa in 2025, according to INTERPOL’s African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026, with stolen passwords and outdated devices among the vulnerabilities that can give cybercriminals access to home and business networks.\n\nWhile detection figures are influenced by factors such as connectivity levels and reporting requirements, the report identifies South Africa as a primary target for ransomware activity on the continent.\n\nA ransomware attack often becomes visible only when a ransom note appears on a victim’s screen. \n\nHowever, by that stage, attackers may already have spent days or weeks inside a network, accessing and stealing valuable information.\n\n“The 92% tells you where ransomware got caught,” said Doros Hadjizenonos, Regional Director for Southern Africa at Fortinet.\n\n“By that stage the attacker had got in and very likely taken what they wanted weeks earlier. Locking the files is how they get paid, yes, but the part South Africans can most effectively do something about happens at the start.”\n\nFortinet is among the partners whose threat data INTERPOL used in its report. Its FortiGuard Labs data shows criminals using automated tools to scan tens of thousands of systems per second for unpatched routers and exposed cloud services.\n\nThe passwords a browser remembers\n\nINTERPOL found that malware detections in Southern Africa were heavily weighted towards infostealers and backdoors, which may be used to facilitate ransomware attacks at a later stage.\n\nAn infostealer is malicious software that copies saved passwords and active login sessions from an infected computer before sending them to criminals. Victims may not realise their information has been compromised.\n\nFortinet’s 2026 Global Threat Landscape Report found a further 79% increase in logs from infostealer infected systems available to criminals, following a 500% increase the previous year.\n\nThese logs now account for 67% of datasets advertised and shared in dark web database markets, compared with about 6% for lists of leaked passwords. INTERPOL’s report also found that African origin material on dark web forums grew by 62% year on year, much of it consisting of identity documents and banking details.\n\nHadjizenonos said a shared household computer could provide criminals with a route into a workplace network.\n\n“Picture a family laptop that a parent also uses for remote work,” he said. “A child installs a free game add on that carries an infostealer, while the browser already has the work email password saved, and the VPN login too. Nothing crashes because of the newly installed software, so nobody suspects anything, but weeks later someone buys that login and signs in to the employer’s network as if they work there.”\n\nEquipment that missed its updates\n\nOutdated equipment and unpatched software provide another route into networks.\n\nAccording to INTERPOL’s report, South Africa accounted for 43.6% of the exploitable vulnerabilities detected by the Shadowserver Foundation across Africa in 2025. Among the most targeted weaknesses were outdated routers and unpatched virtual private networks (VPNs), which INTERPOL described as publicly known and well documented.\n\nFortinet’s research found that the time between a critical software flaw becoming public and attackers exploiting it had fallen to as little as 24 to 48 hours, compared with four to five days in earlier reports.\n\n“A small business with one IT person, or none, used to have several days to patch a firewall,” Hadjizenonos said. “Now scanning software is hunting for the flaw before anyone in the office has potentially even read the advisory.”\n\nWhat households and businesses can do\n\nOctober is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and Hadjizenonos said there were practical steps households and organisations could take to reduce their exposure to cybercrime.\n\nFor households, he recommended keeping work login details off shared devices and using a trusted password manager.\n\n“Turn on multi factor authentication wherever it’s available, because then a stolen password on its own gets the illicit buyer of the data nowhere,” he said.\n\nFor organisations, he said internet facing equipment should be a priority, particularly firewalls and VPN gateways.\n\n“Patch what attackers can see from outside first, the firewalls and VPN gateways. Then find out which of your employees’ passwords and sessions are already for sale, because the people selling them won’t wait for your next audit,” he said.\n\nThe figures highlight how ransomware threats can begin well before a business or household receives a ransom demand. 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