South Africa named Africa's cybercrime hotspot
Business Email Compromise: 70% of BEC detections across the continent originate from South Africa.
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Summary
Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attacks: Recorded 213,523 DDoS attacks, with bandwidth peaks reaching 312 Gbps. Digital sextortion: Generated 30% of all sextortion-related IP senders and detections across Africa.
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Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attacks: Recorded 213,523 DDoS attacks, with bandwidth peaks reaching 312 Gbps.
according to IOL (Independent Online)Digital sextortion: Generated 30% of all sextortion-related IP senders and detections across Africa.
according to IOL (Independent Online)
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