THE Federal Government has disclosed that a total of 12,988,978 cyber attacks were recorded before and during the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections.
In a statement issued on Tuesday, March 14, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Isa Pantami revealed that at least 1,550,000 attacks were recorded on public websites and portals daily before the elections.
The statement noted that the attacks increased to 6,997,277 from within and outside Nigeria on election day.
The incidents include Distributed Denial of Service, email and IPS attacks, SSH Login Attempts, Brute Force Injection attempts, Path Traversal, Detection Evasion and Forceful Browsing.
The statement disclosed that a committee set up by the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy to mitigate the activities of cyber criminals during the elections worked from February 24 till February 28.
“A total of 12,988,978 attacks were recorded, originating from both within and outside Nigeria.
“Generally, threats to public websites and portals averaged around 1,550,000 daily. However, this skyrocketed to 6,997,277 on Presidential Election Day.”
According to the statement, in the runup to the 2023 general elections, threat intelligence revealed an astronomical increase in cyber threats to the Nigerian cyberspace.
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