<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>…and this is before we bump your connections up with AfricaConnect2. Imagine what will happen when your communities have good bandwidth and no protection!</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="border-width: 1pt 1.5pt; border-color: rgb(195, 212, 229); border-style: solid; padding: 14pt 14pt 14pt 17pt;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', serif;" class="">Od:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', serif;" class="">Jennifer O'Connell <<a href="mailto:joconnell@cymru.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">joconnell@cymru.com</a>></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', serif;" class="">Temat: [DNB] [RESEARCH] Is West Africa Poised for an Underground Market?</span></b><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', serif;" class="">Data:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', serif;" class="">10 marca 2017 10:31:27 CET</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', serif;" class="">Do:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', serif;" class=""><a href="mailto:dragon_newsbytes@cymru.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">dragon_newsbytes@cymru.com</a></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Title: Is West Africa Poised for an Underground Market?<br class="">Source: Trend Micro, TrendLabs Security Intelligence Blog<br class="">Date Published: 9 March 2017<br class=""><br class="">Excerpt:<br class=""><br class="">"Based on an INTERPOL survey featured in a joint Trend Micro-INTERPOL<br class="">research paper, West African cybercriminals stole an average of US$2.7<br class="">million from businesses and an average of US$422,000 from individuals<br class="">from 2013 to 2015. Scams or various types of fraud, whether simple (like<br class="">419 or Nigerian prince scams) or complex (like business email compromise<br class="">[BEC] scams), run rampant in the West African threat landscape. In fact,<br class="">most of the online scams we see now may have to do with the increase in<br class="">the region’s cybercriminal activity volume.<br class=""><br class="">While conducting research on cybercrime in West Africa, we stumbled upon<br class="">a scamming operation dubbed “Z*N.” In it, the cybercriminal uses<br class="">keyloggers to gather the email credentials of employees in order to<br class="">hijack ongoing financial transactions. As such, hijacked funds ended up<br class="">in accounts that the cybercriminal control.<br class=""><br class="">The cybercriminal mistakenly installed the keylogger onto his own<br class="">computer. This “slip” allowed us to access his logs and find details<br class="">about him (personal data) and his operation. It also gave us an insight<br class="">into what goes on in a typical scamming operation:"<br class=""><br class="">To read the complete article see:<br class=""><br class=""><<a href="http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/west-africa-poised-underground-market/" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;" class="">http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/west-africa-poised-underground-market/</a>></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">—</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Omo Oaiya<br class="">CTO/Directeur Technique, WACREN <br class="">Mobile: +234 806 4522778, +221 784 305 224<br class="">Skype: kodion<br class=""><a href="http://www.wacren.net" class="">http://www.wacren.net</a> <br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div>
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