In his annual report “African Cyberthreat Assessment”, Interpol draws up a cartography of cybercrime on the African continent marked by the increase in cyber attacks, in particular against the banking sector.
This 32 -page document reveals a strong increase in cyber attacks in Africa.
In this register, Morocco is the second most targeted country in Africa with 8%of cyber attacks detected last year, behind South Africa (42%), while Botswana (6%), Egypt (6%) and Tanzania (4%) complete the top 5.
Regarding the global distribution of detected extortion spam spam, 2.44% of the IP addresses of sender was geolocated in South Africa, 2.13% in Morocco, 0.94% in Kenya and 0.91% in Tunisia.
These figures, explains Interpol, suggest that servers have been compromised or are part of a network used for malware such as extortion spam campaigns.
According to the report, it is very likely that the attackers took advantage of the vulnerabilities of servers, despite the advances made in digitalization and efforts to strengthen computer security, to deploy “botnet” networks, which allow one person to take control of several machines at a time, in order to carry out various illegal activities.
