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DangerousSavanna: Two-year long campaign targets financial institutions in French-speaking Africa
By etal
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Introduction
Recent studies show that more than 85% of financial institutions in Central and Western Africa have repeatedly been victimized in multiple, damaging cyberattacks. In a quarter of these cases, intrusions into network systems resulted in the worst possible outcomes for the financial and banking sector: information leaks, identity theft, money transfer fraud, and bank withdrawals on false checks.
In this article, we analyze a malicious campaign called DangerousSavanna which has been targeting multiple major financial service groups in French-speaking Africa for the last two years. The threat actors behind thi…
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