A New York technology entrepreneur was sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday after pleading guilty last year to laundering funds stolen from Bitfinex one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, with the help of his wife. Ilya Lichtens ...
Goods worth millions of naira were lost as a fire ravaged a market in the Ajah area of Lagos, according to a statement from the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) on Monday. Dr. Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, LASEMA’s Permanent Secretary, conf ...
The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ola Olukoyode, has raised concerns over the growing threat of cybercrime, warning that global losses could reach a staggering $10.5 trillion by 2025, with an estimated 2,328 cases r ...
African businesses have been advised to meet the European Union’s (EU) heightened cybersecurity standards following the introduction of the Network and Information Security (NIS2) Directive. The directive, which came into effect this month, requires E ...
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has taken action against 1,600 Facebook groups linked to 'Yahoo Boys'—online scammers known for internet fraud. The term "Yahoo Boys" emerged from the widespread use of Yahoo ema ...
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested an automobile spare parts dealer, Ejiofor Chiwuzie, for attempting to export consignments of heroin and a strain of cannabis known as "loud" in Lagos. The arrest was confirme ...
In a major international crackdown, law enforcement agencies have successfully dismantled an encrypted communication platform known as "Ghost," which was widely used by criminal organizations for large-scale drug trafficking and money laundering, ...
The WhatsApp number of Nigeria’s Minister of Sports Development, Senator John Owan Enoh, has been compromised, according to an announcement by Diana-Mary Nsan, the Minister's Special Assistant on Media. Nsan advised the public to disregard any messages r ...
By Nafisat Abdulrahman The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has issued a warning to the public about a critical security vulnerability discovered in the Google Chrome browser. This alert follows an advisory from the Niger ...
By Nafisat Abdulrahman The X (formerly Twitter) accounts belonging to two members of former US President Donald Trump's family were hacked on Wednesday and used to promote a Solana meme coin. The hacks came as the former president prepared to rele ...