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Global security validation leader AttackIQ enters South Africa
AttackIQ, a leader in continuous security validation and exposure management, has announced its entry into the South African market with the appointment of Luke Cifarelli as its Country Manager.
This move signals AttackIQ’ s commitment to the African region and its mission to help organisations build and maintain a threat-informed defence against today’ s relentless cyberthreat environment.
AttackIQ is a founding sponsor and governing board member of the MITRE Engenuity Center for Threat-Informed Defence, a non-profit research organisation co-founded with other industry leaders including JP Morgan Chase, IBM Security and Salesforce. The AttackIQ platform is architected around the MITRE ATT & CK framework, using it as a foundational blueprint for continuous security validation and exposure management. ke Cifarelli, Country Manager, AttackIQ
Recognising that effective security validation is a necessity for businesses of all sizes and maturities, AttackIQ’ s portfolio is designed to democratise access to enterprise-grade testing. AttackIQ’ s Flex offering delivers essential, agent-less security validation that is both cost-effective and simple to deploy, bringing the power of a threatinformed defence within reach of mid-market organisations and streamlining operations for lean security teams.
Cifarelli highlighted the significance of this move into Africa as it brings the AttackIQ world-class platform to the region.
“ AttackIQ is trusted by security teams globally for continuous validation of the efficacy of businesses’ security controls against the latest adversary tactics and techniques,” said Cifarelli, who will spearhead AttackIQ’ s initiatives across the region.
Telecom sector in Northern Africa remains prime target of sophisticated DDoS campaigns, says NETSCOUT
NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, a leading provider of observability, AIOps, cybersecurity and distributed denial of service( DDoS) attack protection solutions, has released its latest global Threat Intelligence Report revealing how DDoS hits are intensifying across North Africa. The findings highlight that telecommunications providers – both wired and wireless – were the primary targets in Morocco, Tunisia, Libya and Algeria during the first half of 2025.
Northern Africa by the numbers:
• Morocco recorded more than 75,600 DDoS incidents, ranking second in Africa for overall attack volume behind South Africa.
• Tunisia endured the continent’ s longest single DDoS campaign, lasting nearly seven hours( 418.68 minutes) and also saw the highest recorded bandwidth, peaking at 756.61 Gbps.
• Libya withstood the second longest single attack in Northern Africa, at 242.6 minutes, and suffered the highest attack complexity, with 23 vectors deployed in a single incident.
• Algeria, while reporting fewer malicious attempts( 186), still faced powerful events, experiencing bandwidths peaking at 432.02 Gbps and throughput at 41.05 Mpps.
“ Across the region, threat actors consistently targeted the telecommunications sector, unleashing high-volume, multi-vector attacks that disrupted connectivity and threatened service
reliability,” said Bryan Hamman, Regional Director for Africa at NETSCOUT.“ Overall though, the results show an interesting mix of results when compared to our last Threat Intelligence Report, which looked at the second half of 2024.
“ The lesson is clear: organisations must prepare for the scale and sophistication of today’ s threats,” Hamman concludes.
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