By Nafisat Abdulrahman The Ibadan Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Commission (EFCC) has secured the conviction and sentencing of 39 internet fraudsters. Justices O.S. Adeyemi, Bayo Taiwo and Ladiran Akintola, all of the Oyo State High Court, sitting in Ibadan handed the various jail terms to the convicts
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By Nafisat Abdulrahman The Federal High Court in Lagos has sentenced an online fraudster, Courage Ipaka for impersonating Nigerian musician, Chinedu Okoli popularly known as Flavour N’abania to dupe a United States citizen. Ipaka was sentenced to two years imprisonment for duping Mrs. Yvelte M. Thompson $53,000 with Flavour’s identity.
As Africa experiences fast economic growth, cybercrime appears to be keeping pace. In 2023, for example, the average number of weekly cyberattacks impacting African businesses grew 23% compared to the prior years, the fastest increase worldwide, according to Interpol’s 2024 African Cyberthreat Assessment, with ransomware and business email compromise (BEC)
Last week, one of the largest IT outages in history disrupted businesses and governments around the world. The incident, which affected 8.5 million Microsoft Windows devices, led to widespread disruptions of airlines, banks, broadcasters, healthcare providers, retail payment terminals and cash machines globally. The cost of the outage is estimated
A complex large-scale campaign was detected by Unit 42 researchers that manipulated and extorted several organizations using cloud systems. Security analysts discovered this massive, large-scale cyber attack on AWS cloud environments had over 230 million unique targets. The attackers crafted a smart tactic of exploiting exposed environment variable (.env) files
The federal government is to deploy and implement the latest Internet Protocol Version (IPV6) in the country to enable the country to identify and number internet users and devices and track internet transactions. Minister of Communications Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr. Bosun Tijani, stated this at a one-day IPV6-Driven Digital