Sub-Sahara Africa suffered a web attack of 42.4 million, 95.6 million on the device

The latest data shared by the Kaspersky Cybersecurity company has revealed that the African sub-Sahara saw 42.4 million web attacks and 95.6 million on-return attacks detected in the first half of 2025.

This region records more than a double increase in spyware, 64% more password thief attacks, and 12% backdoor infections are more than the same period last year.

This statistics are divided before Kaspersky’s participation in Gitex Nigeria, one of the most significant technology events in the region that occurred in Lagos.

In Nigeria in the first half of 2025, Kaspersky’s security device blocked more than 1.46 million online attack efforts on users. With this threat (including phishing fraud, exploitation, botnet, long-distance desktop protocol attacks, and network spoofing such as fake Wi-Fi networks), almost one in five people in the country (19.9%) targeted.

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In the same period, 4.97 million incidents on the device were blocked, of which 28.6% of Nigerian users face malware delivered through an infected USB drive, CD, DVD, and hidden installers, including ransomware, worms, backdoors, trojans, password thieves, and spyware.

Kaspersky analysis showed a 66% increase in password thieves in Nigeria in H1 2025 compared to the same period in 2024, in addition to an increase of 53% in blocked spyware. Exploitation of vulnerability targeting in applications such as Microsoft Office is also common.

Although the total amount of phishing detection decreased by 52%, the threat of phishing became more targeted, with a focus on certain topics; For example, special phishing related to financial topics (banks, e-shop, and payment systems) is increasing and growing 46% (Kaspersky records more than 595,000 financial detection related to finance in this country).

“Every day, more people in Africa and in Nigeria specifically move their businesses, banking, and even daily tasks online. But with this opportunity challenges arise. Maya explorers also become more active, targeting not only large companies and government networks, but also general people, and general managers in Africa, and general managers, said managers,” Chris Norton said, “Chris Norton said,” said Chris Norton, “said Chris Norton,” said Chris Norton, “said Chris Norton,” said Chris Norton, “Chris said Chris Norton, “said Chris Norton.