Nigeria has recorded a total of 3,834,244 attacks originating from both within and outside the country during the governorship and state assembly elections at the weekend, reports ITREALMS.
He also noted that the Ministerial Standing Committee on Advisory Role for the Protection of Nigerian Cyberspace and ICT Infrastructure, provided close oversight on the activities of the cybersecurity centres, from Friday 17th March, 2023 to Monday 20th March, 2023.
"During this period and as previously reported, a series of hacking attempts were recorded, including Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), email and Internet Protocol Spoofing (IPS) attacks, SSH Login Attempts, Brute force Injection attempts, Path Traversal, Detection Evasion, and Forceful Browsing." he said.
Equally, the Senior Technical Assistant (Research and Development) to the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Femi Adeluyi, was quoted in a press statement available to
ITREALMS as saying that the activities of cyberthreat actors on the Nigerian cyberspace during the Gubernatorial and State Assembly elections are much lower than those during the Presidential and National Assembly elections.
"This is neither surprising nor unexpected as, Nigeria being Africa’s largest democracy, the Presidential and National Assembly elections are bound to attract much attention of everyone, including cyberthreat actors, than during the Gubernatorial and State Assembly elections," he said.
Furthermore, Pantami expressed, confident that the implementation of some recommendations as well as measures taken to fortify our cyber defence mechanisms might have helped in this.
Remmy Nweke/DoP
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