The Nigerian Communications Commission, an independent regulatory authority for the telecommunications industry in Nigeria has alerted Nigerian against software targeting users’ banking app information. According to NCC spokesman Ikechukwu Adinde in a statement released on Sunday, the Nigerian Communications Commission has found newly-hatched malicious software that steals Android users’ banking app login information. NCC’s Computer […]

As reactions trail the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, the technological dimension continues to emerge by the day. Cyberspace has become another platform for this war. Both countries continue to experience diverse adversarial attacks and consequences technologically and within their respective cyber ecosystem.  As reported earlier this week by Techpression, the Russians have been accused […]

This is the second part of the Cybercrime in Nigeria series.  Read: Cybercrime Typology in Nigeria: A Sign of Industrialisation (Part 1) Nigerian crime now is abandoning pedestrian fraud-related crime that requires little or no technical skills. According to Statista, the country has 8th internet penetration rate, with 49 per cent of the country having […]

European major oil transport and storage companies are battling with cyber-attacks. Companies including Evos (Netherlands), SEA-Invest (Belgium), and Oiltanking (Germany) are witnessing the disruption of their IT infrastructure. These attacks are having a global effect, with about a dozen terminals being affected. The affected companies confirmed its occurrence in the last few days.  According to […]