Hawks join Interpol war against cyber crime

South Africans are being robbed blind online. Hawks spokesman Brigadier Hangwani Mulaudzi said yesterday that its cyber crimes unit was flooded with reports of the computers of big businesses being hijacked, and of syndicates using jobless people and bank employees to siphon off money."Syndicates take over the server of a company and then demand a ransom [to restore control to the company]," he said.