{"id":242835,"date":"2026-09-01T08:42:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T06:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-msu-student-accused-of-masterminding-u-s-1-1m-cabs-cyber-fraud\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T08:42:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T06:42:04","slug":"zimbabwe-msu-student-accused-of-masterminding-u-s-1-1m-cabs-cyber-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-msu-student-accused-of-masterminding-u-s-1-1m-cabs-cyber-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: MSU Student Accused of Masterminding U.S.$1.1m Cabs Cyber Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">A 24-year-old Midlands State University final-year Computer Science student has appeared in court accused of using malware to siphon more than US$1.1 million from CABS through fraudulent VISA and ZIPIT transactions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Sabelo Malunga appeared before Harare regional magistrate Francis Mapfumo facing a charge of hacking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">He was remanded in custody pending his bail hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The prosecution, led by Mr Blessed Songozo, alleges that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609010019.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 24-year-old Midlands State University final-year Computer Science student has appeared in court accused of using malware to siphon more than US$1.1 million from CABS through fraudulent VISA and ZIPIT transactions. Sabelo Malunga appeared before Harare regional magistrate Francis Mapfumo facing a charge of hacking. He was remanded in custody pending his bail hearing. Follow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[7083,258,256,16719,6197,8666,23316,55321,257,254,11431,55322,4686,421],"class_list":["post-242835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cabs","tag-cyber","tag-fraud","tag-masterminding","tag-msu","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-student","tag-u-s-1-1m","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}