Cybercrime

If the treaty enters into force, responsible nations will have to carefully monitor how other countries use it.

Cybercrime is getting increasingly sophisticated, and scammers target senior citizens.

The high cost of housing is also keeping half of young adults up to age 29 living with their parents.

How big policy areas like crime, education, transport and energy have changed.

Even with human rights safeguards in place, the new convention risks giving authoritarian regimes new tools to target their critics.

Hackers have easier ways of getting information out of a computer, but side-channel vulnerabilities show that technology developers need to take a broad view of security.

Sextortion is a form of online blackmail where a perpetrator coerces or tricks a victim into sending intimate images. New research shows it’s on the rise.

Understanding what drives recruitment into these academies is not a defence of fraud. It is a precondition for dismantling it.

The first piece of ransomware was sent it out on 20,0000 floppy discs in 1989, to raise awareness of health- rather than cyber-hygiene.

Not all victims of scam compounds are unwilling —and that’s what makes the system so hard to dismantle.

QR codes are so familiar and widespread, we tend to trust them without question. That’s exactly what scammers rely on.

Young people are being coerced into performing violent acts on themselves, family members or their pets, with vision of these crimes often shared online.

Intra-African trafficking, particularly through digital deception and aspirational manipulation, remains largely invisible.

Some Afrobeats songs use moral language that softens and normalises cybercrime.

Even crime we think of as ‘local’ can exploit force boundaries.

Ransomware is a growing threat on the continent. There are a number of steps companies can take to combat it.

Unmasking dark web criminals isn’t easy, but researchers are figuring out how to use their own language against them.

Selfies with passports or drivers’ licences can open users to sophisticated forms of fraud.

Cybercrime is now a service that crooks can pay for to target businesses for extortion.

Tanzania favours information control over transparency and accountability.

With cyber crime groups constantly shifting tactics and getting creative, we all must stay vigilant – especially if we work at large companies.

What happens next when your data is leaked in a data breach like the one at Qantas? Cyber criminals have creative ways to get what they want.

Shutdowns like this have become a recurring feature of the dark web. They are usually not a significant turning point.

A new book draws on over 600 cases of users tricked by fake listings and fake reviews, scammed out of money or placed in physical danger.

Honesty is the best policy when planning a crisis response.