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INTERPOL report finds AI linked to more than half of cybercrime in Africa

Cyber-criminality has evolved from isolated incidents into an industrialized, borderless ecosystem. Artificial intelligence is enabling 55 per cent of reported cybercrimes across Africa making attacks faster, more scalable, and increasingly difficult for victims and platforms to detect, according to INTERPOL’s African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026. With more than 1.1 billion mobile subscribers recorded in 2025, […]

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Ethiopia, Uganda, Angola, Ghana, Nigeria top African countries targeted by threats

Check Point Software Technologies released its Global Threat Index for December 2024, emphasising the growing sophistication of cybercriminals. For Africa, December was hardly a season to be jolly with eight of the continent’s countries listed among the top 20 most attacked. Ethiopia retained its top spot as the most attacked country with a 98.2% Normalised

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