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Kumasi: 27 Nigerians arrested in Kumasi for cyber crime

The enforcement section of the Operations Department of the Ghana Immigration Service has arrested 27 Nigerians involved in suspected cybercrime at Appiedu near Tech in the Ashanti regional capital, Kumasi through intelligence. They’re all male suspected internet fraudsters aged between 16-26 years. A search conducted on them retrieved 27 laptops …

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Hackers break into Airtel, MTN, Stanbic, and other financial firms’ systems

Unidentified hackers broke into the systems of Pegasus Technologies, a company that integrates mobile money transactions between telcos, banks, and other local, regional, and international money transfer services, making off with a yet to be known sum, but said to be in billions of Shillings. The most affected firms are …

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11,545 cyber-crime reports made between January to August 2020 – Ursula Owusu

A total of 11,545 reports have been made through government’s National Cyber Security Centre’s (NCSC) Incident Reporting Point of Contact (POC) between January and August 2020. According to the Communications Minister, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful a significant number of people have also contacted the NCSC through the POC seeking for guidance and direction in …

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