When authorities in Namibia discovered a Chinese-led “pig butchering” cryptocurrency investment scam in late 2023, they arrested 14 people, including…
Browsing: cyber security
The military government of Niger has terminated its intelligence cooperation with Russia and Turkey, saying the surveillance systems and related…
Rowland Turaki was a cybersecurity student in Lagos, Nigeria, when he answered an advertisement seeking customer service representatives for a…
In late January, South Africans discovered their national weather service had been taken offline by a cyberattack from an unknown…
ADF STAFF More than one-third of African business leaders and cybersecurity experts doubt that their governments and major economic players…
ADF STAFF Africa’s rapidly evolving online environment is outpacing the continent’s cybersecurity efforts, creating the potential for an event experts…
ADF STAFF Even as terrorism cases have declined in East Africa in recent years, the region is experiencing a renewed…
ADF STAFF Shortly before war broke out between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)…
ADF STAFF Nigeria’s so-called Yahoo Boys begin learning the tricks of online fraud early. They’re often as young as 12…
ADF STAFF A ransomware bug infecting computer systems across Africa is the latest evidence that criminals are using the continent…