The federal government has announced that about 3,834,244 hacking attempts were made on Nigeria’s cyberspace before, during, and after the 2023 Gubernatorial and State Assembly elections.
According to a statement issued by the ministry of telecommunications and digital economy, a ministerial standing committee which was set up to monitor the cyberspace, observed a series of hacking attempts including distributed denial of service (DDoS), email and Internet Protocol Spoofing (IPS) attacks, SSH login attempts, brute force injection attempts, path traversal, detection evasion, and forceful browsing from March 17 to March 2023.
