Updates

The year of social distancing or social engineering? Phishing goes targeted and diversifies during COVID-19 outbreak with 2 million attacks in Q2 in Africa

Security solutions have detected 2,023,501 phishing attacks in South Africa, Kenya, Egypt, Nigeria, Rwanda and Ethiopia August 18, 2020/Kaspersky Kaspersky (www.Kaspersky.co.za) analysis has revealed that phishing attacks are becoming increasingly more targeted. A number of new tricks have also been found – from HR dismissal emails to attacks disguised as […]

African Union Inaugurates AfCFTA Permanent Secretariat as Launchpad for Africa’s Economic Transformation

The African Development Bank Group provided a $5 million institutional support grant to the AU towards the establishment of the AfCFTA secretariat August 18, 2020/AfDB At a ceremony on Monday to commission the permanent secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo and Moussa Faki […]

Daily Market Update for August 17, 2020-Cordros

August 17, 2020/Cordros Report EQUITIES The domestic equities market started the week on a negative note, as the NSE ASI declined by 0.3% to 25,132.67 points. This is as investors sold off on their positions in MTNN (-1.0%), DANGCEM (-0.7%), and FLOURMILL (-7.1%) stocks. Consequently, the Month-to-Date gain moderated to […]