South Sudan boosts digital finance cybersecurity cooperation

The Safety and Security Sector Education and Training Authority has identified cybersecurity, digital forensics, policing, investigation and intelligence among its key skills development priorities for the coming financial year.

Richard Ford of Integrity360 explains how AI is amplifying existing scams, enabling attackers to generate highly personalised phishing emails in seconds using publicly available data. He warns that synthetic audio can convincingly mimic familiar voices, making phone verification of unusual requests increasingly unreliable.