How one Nigerian university student turned to cybercrime during the pandemic to pay his bills, driven by high unemployment, few well-paying jobs, and boredom
so excited we published his first feature, a nearly year in the making, at @TheRecord_Media! https://therecord.media/... https://twitter.com/... @therecord_media : Since the start of the pandemic, Nigeria has witnessed an increase not just in the number of people drawn into cybercrime, but also in the complexity of tactics they deploy https://therecord.media/... @uuallan : This is really good reporting from @OlaigbeUthman and it tracks with what @ddd1ms has said about Russian cybercriminals: a lot of smart, well-educated, trained, computer scientists with no job prospects so they turn to cybercrime. https://therecord.media/... Thanks: @campuscodi
Interested to see someone explore this. Its been a working theory of mine that economic conditions have partially driven the level of cybercrime in the last two years. Other factors like working from home have also been a challenge. https://therecord.media/...
Absolutely fantastic article from @OlaigbeUthman about how economic conditions in Nigeria, particularly since the beginning of the pandemic, have driven students toward cybercrime. Definitely worth a read! https://therecord.media/...
“I'm not justifying my decision, but there's something in being at home, doing nothing, but paradoxically doing everything in your capacity to stay alive, yet you are kind of dying, that makes you care less about others” Let that sink in. #BEC https://therecord.media/...
Olatunji delivered nuanced, narrative of reporting on how the pandemic and related to economic turmoil has pulled Nigerian university students into cybercrime—so excited we published his first feature, a nearly year in the making, at @TheRecord_Media! https://therecord.media/... …
Since the start of the pandemic, Nigeria has witnessed an increase not just in the number of people drawn into cybercrime, but also in the complexity of tactics they deploy https://therecord.media/...
This is really good reporting from @OlaigbeUthman and it tracks with what @ddd1ms has said about Russian cybercriminals: a lot of smart, well-educated, trained, computer scientists with no job prospects so they turn to cybercrime. https://therecord.media/...