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After 6ish months of devouring everything I can find on #Africa's cyber threats and challenges, here are my top-ten articles and reports, in no-particular order. All no paywall, open-source. 1/n
For unparalleled insight into the scope and scale of cyber threats and attacks, this 2016 report by @symantec and @_AfricanUnion is the gold standard. 2/n
https://www.thehaguesecuritydelta.com/media/com_hsd/report/135/document/Cyber-security-trends-report-Africa-en.pdf
https://www.thehaguesecuritydelta.com/media/com_hsd/report/135/document/Cyber-security-trends-report-Africa-en.pdf
For continent-level information on the costs of cybercrime and deficits in organizational preparedness, this 2017 report and survey of leading cyber professionals / organizations, edited by @serianultd's Brencil Kaimba, is a must read. 3/n
https://www.serianu.com/downloads/AfricaCyberSecurityReport2017.pdf
https://www.serianu.com/downloads/AfricaCyberSecurityReport2017.pdf
On interstate relations, cyber stability and governance in Africa, read Jerome Uchenna Orji's amazing analysis of the challenges facing the implemention of the 2014 Malabo convention. 4/n
https://journals.muni.cz/mujlt/article/view/8666
https://journals.muni.cz/mujlt/article/view/8666
For careful, detailed and comprehensive documentation of Russian influence operations in #Africa, look no farther then this @FSIStanford white paper by @shelbygrossman, Daniel Bush and @noUpside.
5/n https://fsi.stanford.edu/publication/evidence-russia-linked-influence-operations-africa
5/n https://fsi.stanford.edu/publication/evidence-russia-linked-influence-operations-africa
For those interested in the implications of the spread of Chinese influence + digital surveillance technologies for democracy in #Africa, drop everything and immediately read this testimony by @SteveJFeldstein in front of the @USCC_GOV.
6/n
https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/Feldstein_Testimony.pdf
6/n
https://www.uscc.gov/sites/default/files/Feldstein_Testimony.pdf
This is a mind-blowing account of how a lone hacker inadvertently ground Liberia's internet to a halt by @business's @KitChellel.
7/n https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-12-20/spiderman-hacker-daniel-kaye-took-down-liberia-s-internet
7/n https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-12-20/spiderman-hacker-daniel-kaye-took-down-liberia-s-internet
Hot off the presses, this @ENACT_Africa and @INTERPOL_Cyber report is the go-to source for the linkage between mobile money, cybercrime and transnational organized crime in Africa.
8/n https://enactafrica.org/research/interpol-reports/mobile-money-and-organised-crime-in-africa
8/n https://enactafrica.org/research/interpol-reports/mobile-money-and-organised-crime-in-africa
On the promises and pitfalls of the use of internet for African terrorists groups, check out @kemenkhaus's analysis of #AlShabaab and social media. http://bjwa.brown.edu/20-2/al-shabaab-and-social-media-a-double-edged-sword/
Did you know that the Nigerian 409-scams have evolved into one of the world's fastest growing and most lucrative criminal enterprises?
If not, this @Unit42_Intel report will get you up to speed.
10/n https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/resources/whitepapers/unit42-silverterrier-rise-of-nigerian-business-email-compromise
If not, this @Unit42_Intel report will get you up to speed.
10/n https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/resources/whitepapers/unit42-silverterrier-rise-of-nigerian-business-email-compromise
See also the #COVID-19 version, in which a #Nigerian cybercriminal group called Scattered Canary steals hundreds of millions in U.S. unemployment benefits.
https://www.wired.com/story/nigerian-scammers-unemployment-system-scattered-canary/
11/n
https://www.wired.com/story/nigerian-scammers-unemployment-system-scattered-canary/
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Finally, because I just can't do just 10, check out @DrM2H ( https://www.mattherbert.org/lalinea/2019/10/8/libyas-war-becomes-a-tech-battleground) on disinfo, drones and cyberattacks in the civil war in Libya and @noelle_cowling ( https://blogs.icrc.org/law-and-policy/2020/06/11/cyber-poverty-line-africa/) on Africa's strategic cyber challenges.
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