Tag: cyberattack
Hackers steal US$16.8 million from Uganda’s central bank
Offshore hackers stole USh62 billion (US$16.8 million) from Uganda’s central bank, the state-owned New Vision newspaper reported on Thursday.
The hackers, identifying themselves as “Waste”,...
World’s largest ransomware gang nailed
Lockbit, a notorious cybercrime gang that holds its victims’ data to ransom, has been disrupted in a rare international law enforcement operation, the gang...
40,000 internal corporate data for sale on Dark Web
Almost 40,000 dark web posts relating to the sale of internal corporate information have been uncovered according to a report by Kaspersky.
Cybersecurity experts observe...
Central Bank of Lesotho hit by cyberattack
The central bank of southern African country Lesotho is facing severe outages due to a cyberattack that was discovered earlier this week.
The bank released...
Notorious Russian hackavist attacks Nigeria after Kenya, who is next?
A week after attacking Kenyan companies, notorious Russian hackavist, Anonymous Sudan is claiming responsibility for cyberattacks on MTN Nigeria and Nigeria’s National Information Technology Development...
Russian hackers launch cyberattack on Kenyan institutions, including Safaricom
A pro-Russian hacktivist group called Anonymous Sudan has claimed responsibility for a series of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks on websites of Kenyan media, hospitals,...
ECG: Customers can buy prepaid credit from 9am today
The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) has resolved the technical challenge that plunged customers using prepaid meters into darkness for almost one week.
A statement...
ECG prepaid central database compromised
The central database and systems of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) have been compromised by external sources who are currently controlling the source...
Surfline set to provide digital solutions against cyberattacks, disasters
Surfline Communications, Ghana's the leading broadband wireless access (BWA) operator, has launched a suit of internet business solutions designed to provide dedicated internet service,...
RANSOMWARE attacks increased by 105% globally in 2021 – Report
The world also saw an alarming 105% surge in ransomware cyberattacks last year according to the 2022 Cyber Threat Report released by SonicWall, an...