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, Nig...
Investigation of Ray Hushpuppi, a Nigerian influencer with a lavish lifestyle, who authorities say mastered business email compromise attacks, netting millions
For Ramon Abbas, the Instagram influencer popularly known as Ray Hushpuppi, @hushpuppi, Hush, or the Billionaire Gucci Master, birthdays were always a time for reflection. Tweets: @bw , @bw , @bw , @d...
Koo, the Indian microblogging app that has positioned itself as a government-friendly alternative to Twitter in India, is taking a similar approach in Nigeria
Rest of World : Tweets: @anirvan , @architmeta , @peterguest , @cengizyar , @nilchristopher , @iatalkspace , @yinkawrites , and @evelyndouek Tweets: Anirvan Chatterjee / @anirvan : “Just under a week...
Interpol arrests three suspected members of Nigerian email scam group TMT and says the group's malware has infected 50K+ organizations in 150 countries
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Researchers name Nigerian cybercriminal group, Scattered Canary, as one of the sources of recent unemployment and Cares payout scams using identify theft data
Lily Hay Newman / Wired : Tweets: @lilyhnewman Tweets: Lily Hay Newman / @lilyhnewman : the secret service warned about rising pandemic unemployment fraud and the nigerian BEC group “scattered canary...
US Secret Service memo warns a crime ring is targeting state unemployment insurance programs to commit fraud by using data belonging to identity theft victims
A well-organized Nigerian crime ring is exploiting the COVID-19 crisis by committing large-scale fraud against multiple state …
An in-depth look at how misinformation and incendiary images on Facebook are spreading in Nigeria, where police say they contributed to a dozen recent killings
BBC : Tweets: @toluogunlesi and @kevinroose Tweets: Tolu Ogunlesi / @toluogunlesi : “Nigerian police say false information & incendiary images on Facebook have contributed to more than a dozen recent...
An in-depth look at how misinformation and incendiary images on Facebook are spreading in Nigeria, where police say they contributed to a dozen recent killings
Nigerian police say false information on Facebook is killing people — Nigerian police say false information and incendiary images … Tweets: @toluogunlesi and @kevinroose Tweets: Tolu Ogunlesi / @tol...
Crowdstrike report: Nigerian scammers, now evolved into syndicates, are using malware, phishing, and social engineering to better effect than ever before
Lily Hay Newman / Wired : Tweets: @wired , @lilyhnewman , and @lennyzeltser Tweets: @wired : Email scammers posing as Nigerian royalty are so successful that a Nigerian singer even wrote a rap song g...
Analysis finds algorithms designed by Facebook, Google, and others often struggle to detect doctored images and videos, a key tool for misinformation efforts
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @dseetharaman , @saraheneedleman , @dseetharaman , @scottmaustin , and @dseetharaman Tweets: Deepa Seetharaman / @dseetharaman : NEW: Doctored photos & videos are a big,...