The profiling of Nigeria in the global eye of cyber-criminality has gone beyond terms of tolerable limit. The extensive growth of the wide network of the sharp practice as an estate of fraudulent activities may be growing to the rubicon…
Operatives of the Port Harcourt Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested 40 suspected Internet fraudsters in an early morning sting operation in two locations in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. According to a statement by…
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) wishes to inform telecom consumers and the general public that a new Android malware has been discovered. The malware, named ‘AbstractEmu’, can gain access to smartphones, take complete control of infected smartphones and silently modify…
A 22- year-old Abuja based beer parlour attendant, Olorunwa Emmanuel, aka Zhang Wei has been sentenced to six months imprisonment without option of fine by a Federal High Court in Abuja. The convict confessed to impersonating a Thailand based Chinese…
As part of efforts to engage the student community in the campaign against cybercrime, the Ibadan Zonal Commander of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Assistant Commander of the EFCC, Kanu Idagu, has advised the youth to desist from cybercrime, warning that it…
The Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and the University of Lagos, UNILAG, have expressed readiness to work together in tackling the menace of computer-related frauds. Speaking on Monday, September 27, 2021 during a courtesy visit to…
The Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday August 31, 2021 secured the conviction one Oyadiji Temitope Ridwan, a student of Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, and one Asimiyu Idris over offences bordering on personation and internet…
Mr AbdulRasheed Bawa, the Executive Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has charged corps members to be good ambassadors of the fight against corruption. Bawa made the call on Wednesday during a sensitisation lecture, titled ‘EFCC and the Role…
The latest study on cybercrime landscape by Kaspersky research has disclosed that the top malware families such as ransomware, financial/banking trojans, and crypto-miner malware have increased in Nigeria in quarter (Q2) by 32 per cent up from the first quarter…
Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Thursday, July 8, 2021 sentenced Giwa Nurudeen, a 25-year-old final year student of the University of Ilorin, to three years imprisonment having found him guilty of offences bordering on…
