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CHRIS ROPER: The new propaganda war is fought in your feed

Modern propaganda has moved from physical leaflet drops to covert digital influence campaigns

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The email that came from the supplier, but didn’t really

Business email compromise is the most damaging financial scam, costing R55.5bn over 10 years. It doesn’t require hacking

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The crypto theft that changed everything

A six-month North Korean con drained $285m from Drift in 12 minutes, exposing DeFi’s central myth: that technology can eliminate trust

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AI won’t crack the blockchain. It’ll burn everything else

Anthropic’s Mythos can find thousands of software vulnerabilities. For crypto exchanges, wallets and smart contracts, that changes everything

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When agentic AI goes rogue with crypto

An Alibaba AI agent used company servers to mine crypto. The problem is, no-one told it to. AI spending is now live, and nobody’s quite in charge

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South Africa’s next big scam: APP fraud

South Africa’s instant-payment boom has fuelled a surge in APP fraud – and most firms aren’t insured. Here are 20 ‘safety pins’ to stay safe

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Your crypto, your safety: securing Africa’s financial future

Anti-money-laundering and cybersecurity frameworks are critical to the continent’s crypto future – and central to the credibility of the entire crypto ecosystem.