In late January, South Africans discovered their national weather service had been taken offline by a cyberattack from an unknown…
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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…
ADF STAFF A series of undercover “Operation Jackal” investigations have dealt a blow to Nigeria’s notorious Black Axe criminal networks.…
ADF STAFF South Africa’s Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) organization is developing an artificial intelligence tool designed to monitor social media…
ADF STAFF Cyberattackers are using a new, low-cost weapon to disrupt internet access to media sites across Africa — one…