Cameroon: fake travel sites, a phone call and 50 million...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français Cybercrime keeps claiming victims in Cameroon. In Yaoundé, two men were arrested on September 8 and 11, 2026 by the Gendarmerie’s First Region command....
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Liberia signs cybercrime and data protection laws, but capacity gaps...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français Liberia has just cleared a legislative milestone that had been in the works for months. President Joseph Boakai has signed two major pieces of...
France’s cyber wake-up call after fisc and insurer breaches 🔐
Cliquez ici pour lire en français France’s tax authority, the Direction générale des Finances publiques (DGFiP), has become the latest target in a wave of cyberattacks hitting public administrations and...
Africa’s cybercrime problem just got an AI upgrade, Interpol warns...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français Artificial intelligence is no longer a side tool for cybercriminals in Africa. It’s becoming the operating system. That’s the core finding of Interpol’s African...
Egypt: TikTok provides technological support to protect children from cybercrime...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français On July 10, Egypt’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Raafat Hendy, met with Emir Gelen, TikTok’s Executive Director of Public Policy for the...
SIM swap, sextortion, fake officials: meet Cameroon’s data predators 🚨🇨🇲
Cliquez ici pour lire en français The first three episodes of this series described structured actors: companies following a business model, governments exercising legal — if contested — authority. This...
Social media in Cameroon: What you post online could land...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français More and more Cameroonians are being exposed to the darker sides of the digital space: online harassment, public insults, and the spread of violent...
Senegal partners with Meta to step up the fight against...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français As digital crime continues to rise, Senegal’s National Police is partnering with Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. The goal is...
Facing rising cyber threats, Cameroon upgrades its national cyber defense...
Cliquez ici pour lire en français On January 20, Cameroon’s National Agency for Information and Communication Technologies (ANTIC) received a new set of cybersecurity equipment aimed at strengthening the country’s...
65 nations unite under UN’s first-ever cybercrime treaty 🌐
Cliquez ici pour lire en français Gathered in Hanoi on October 25–26, 65 nations officially signed the United Nations’ first-ever global convention on cybercrime — a historic move designed to...