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The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has alerted Nigerians to a plan by a cybercrime group to deliver ransomware to targeted organisational networks.

The scheme, uncovered by security experts, has been categorised by the Nigerian Computer Emergency Response Team’s advisory released at the weekend, as high-risk and critical.

Data from CheckPoint revealed that the 1,615 attacks represented a 15 per cent increase from 2020. In second place is Asia Pacific with an average of 1,299 weekly attacks per organisation , followed by Latin America with an average of 1,117 attacks weekly , Europe with 665 and North America with 497 .

According to the commission, numerous attack tools are also installed in the process that allow for exploitation of PCs, lateral movement across a network and installation of additional malware. The tools were used to deploy multiple ransomware strains, including BlackBatter and REvil.

 

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