The federal government says cyberattacks skyrocketed to 6,997,277 were recorded on the day the presidential and national assembly election was conducted.
This is as the government stated that a total of 12,988,978 of such attacks were recorded throughout the presidential election period.
The attacks, which came from both within and outside Nigeria, were made on public websites and portals and averaged around 1,550,000 daily.
Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof Isa Ali Pantami disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday.
“It is worth noting that our (cybersecurity) centres successfully blocked these attacks and/or escalated them to the relevant institutions for appropriate action,” the minister said.
He said a committee set up by his ministry to curtail the activities of cyber criminals during the elections started work on February 24, 2023 and ended work on February 28.
He said: “During this period, a series of hacking attempts were recorded, including Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), email and IPS attacks, SSH Login Attempts, Brute force Injection attempts, Path Traversal, Detection Evasion, and Forceful Browsing.”
Pantami said in the runup to the 2023 general elections, threat intelligence revealed an astronomical increase in cyber threats to Nigerian cyberspace.
