{"id":4741,"date":"2025-06-26T08:17:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T08:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/cyber-criminals-exploit-open-source-tools-to-compromise-financial-institutions-across-africa\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T08:17:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T08:17:30","slug":"cyber-criminals-exploit-open-source-tools-to-compromise-financial-institutions-across-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/cyber-criminals-exploit-open-source-tools-to-compromise-financial-institutions-across-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber Criminals Exploit Open-Source Tools to Compromise Financial Institutions Across Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a series of cyber attacks targeting financial organizations across Africa since at least July 2023 using a mix of open-source and publicly available tools to maintain access.<br \/>\nPalo Alto Networks Unit 42 is tracking the activity under the moniker CL-CRI-1014, where &#8220;CL&#8221; refers to &#8220;cluster&#8221; and &#8220;CRI&#8221; stands for &#8220;criminal motivation.&#8221;<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s suspected\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a series of cyber attacks targeting financial organizations across Africa since at least July 2023 using a mix of open-source and publicly available tools to maintain access.<br \/>\nPalo Alto Networks Unit 42 is tracking the activity under the moniker CL-CRI-1014, where &#8220;CL&#8221; refers to &#8220;cluster&#8221; and &#8220;CRI&#8221; stands for &#8220;criminal motivation.&#8221;<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s suspected\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a series of cyber attacks targeting financial organizations across Africa since at least July 2023 using a mix of open-source and publicly available tools to maintain access. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 is tracking the activity under the moniker CL-CRI-1014, where &#8220;CL&#8221; refers to &#8220;cluster&#8221; and &#8220;CRI&#8221; stands for&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/cyber-criminals-exploit-open-source-tools-to-compromise-financial-institutions-across-africa\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cyber Criminals Exploit Open-Source Tools to Compromise Financial Institutions Across Africa<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}