30 results
- 5 Feb 2024
How Fraudsters Trick Finance Worker into Paying them $25m Using Deepfake AI to Pose as Chief Financial Officer
A finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call,…
- 14 Nov 2023
How AI Voice Deepfake Tools Used in Cyber Fraud Can Fool You
The Beatles have once again delighted millions of fans around the world by releasing a new song, all possible thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), combining parts of an old recording while also…
- 5 Apr 2024
Beware of Deepfakes in the AI Age, Warns Kaspersky
The widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning technologies in recent years is providing threat actors with sophisticated new tools to perpetrate their attacks. One of…
- 27 May 2026
YouTube Introduces Automatic AI Labels as Deepfake Concerns Grow
YouTube says it will soon begin automatically detecting artificial intelligence (AI)-generated content and applying labels to such videos for viewers on the platform. YouTube The Google-owned…
- 10 Dec 2025
AI-Powered Fraud Drives Global Race for Deepfake Defenses
Reality Defender and 1Kosmos have announced a strategic partnership that will see the deepfake detection firm integrate its real-time deepfake defenses into 1Kosmos’ blockchain-based biometric…
- 23 Apr 2026
DG NITDA Calls for Urgent Action on AI-Driven Cyber Threats, Announces More Stakeholder Engagements
Kashifu Inuwa CCIE, Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has raised concerns over the rapidly evolving cybersecurity risks driven by artificial…
- 12 May 2025
Why Even the Most Experienced can Fall Victim of AI Phishing Attacks
The evolution of AI is not only affecting various industries, but it has also transformed cybercriminals’ tactics. One alarming trend is the use of AI to enhance phishing scams, refining them,…
- 20 Aug 2024
Study Reveals 40% Believe that AI can be a Better Boss than a Human in Work, life
AI is becoming a new member of society according to results from a new Kaspersky survey titled ‘Excitement, Superstition and great Insecurity – How global Consumers engage with the Digital World’.…
- 7 Oct 2024
Firm Warns that Employees’ Digital Fatigue Leads to Higher Cyber Risks
In observing World Mental Health Day on the 10th of October, Kaspersky warns of the relationship between digital fatigue and increased exposure to cyber risks. In today’s data-driven and digital…
- 14 Oct 2024
Artificial Intelligence to Push eCommerce Fraud to $107Bn - Report
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fuelling the sophistication of attacks across the electronic commerce or ecommerce ecosystem with the use of deepfakes to defeat verification systems being a key…
- 11 Jan 2026
Indonesia Blocks Elon Musk’s Grok Over Deepfake Concerns
Indonesia has become the first country to block access to Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot, citing its generation of non-consensual sexual deepfakes including pornographic depictions of women and…
- 29 Sept 2025
Firm Highlights Biometric, Signature Risks as Phishing Evolves with AI and Stealth
Kaspersky detected and blocked over 142 million phishing link clicks in Q2 2025, a 3.3% increase globally and a 25.7% increase in Africa from Q1. Currently, phishing is going through a shift driven…
- 10 Nov 2025
BHM Launches Africa's First Comprehensive AI Ethics Framework for Media and Communications Industry
BHM, the African communications services company, today published a groundbreaking white paper that establishes Africa's first comprehensive AI Ethics Readiness Framework specifically designed for…
- 16 Oct 2025
FG, Others Preach for Online Safety after $32.8m Data Privacy Settlement with NDPC
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Federal Ministry of Justice, Nigeria Data Protection Bureau (NDPB), Paradigm Initiative (PIN) and other experts in the information communication technology (ICT)…
- 10 Mar 2026
TikTok Pumps $200k into AI Media Literacy for Sub-Saharan Africa at Nairobi Summit
TikTok has announced an additional $200,000 investment in AI media literacy initiatives across Sub-Saharan Africa during its third annual Safer Internet Summit in Nairobi, underscoring the platform's…
- 1 Feb 2024
7 Scams to Watch Out for in 2024
As technology gets more advanced, fraudsters are also getting better at deceiving and stealing from us. In 2024, scammers have some new tricks up their sleeve, such as deepfake impersonation. That is…
- 15 May 2026
Nigerians Lose N12.5bBn to Telecom-Related Financial Crimes - PwC
Nigerians lost about N12.5 billion to telecom-related financial crimes from 2019 to January 2023, underscoring the scale and persistence of this threat to the telecommunications industry, PwC Nigeria…
- 4 Dec 2024
Firm Predicts AI, Privacy to Shape Consumer Cybersecurity Landscape in 2025
According to Kaspersky's latest report, artificial intelligence (AI) will become an integral part of daily life, while privacy concerns around biometric data and advanced technologies will take…
- 3 Aug 2026
INTERPOL Report Shows AI Powers 55% of Cybercrimes in Africa Amid $484m Losses
INTERPOL’s African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026 revealed that Artificial intelligence accounts for 55 per cent of reported cybercrimes across Africa and making attacks faster, more…
- 31 Mar 2024
OpenAI Unveils Voice-Cloning Tool
OpenAI on Friday revealed a voice-cloning tool it plans to keep tightly controlled until safeguards are in place to thwart audio fakes meant to dupe listeners. A model called “Voice Engine” can…
- 9 Dec 2025
Financial Sector Faced AI, Blockchain and Organised Crime Threats in 2025 - Report
The 2025 Kaspersky Security Bulletin provides a review of the major cybersecurity trends of the year and offers a look towards the future of cybersecurity, including within the financial sector.…
- 20 Dec 2018
10 Cyber Security Trends to Watch in 2019
Biometric hacking, an increase in phishing attacks and sophisticated use of artificial intelligence (AI) are among the top cyber security threats to be expected in 2019, as attackers stop at nothing…
- 2 Jul 2025
Ghana Tasks Africa On Increased Cyber security Investments
Ghana has urged other African countries to boost investment in cyber security tools and capacity building. Samuel Nartey George, minister for communication, digital technology, and innovation, made…
- 28 Sept 2025
SEC Raises Alarm over AI-generated Investment Scams
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has warned Nigerians to beware of a rising wave of artificial intelligence (AI)-driven scams that are targeting unsuspecting investors with promises of…
- 29 May 2025
Experts @ ABoICT 2025 Warn of Digital Disaster Risks in Nigeria Without AI Governance
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to transform the global digital landscape, two prominent technology leaders have issued urgent warnings and strategic calls for Nigeria and Africa to adopt a…
- E-Business16 Aug 2026
AI-driven Cyber-Attacks Up 56 Percent, Breaches Cost $6.04m — IBM
AI-driven cyberattacks rose sharply over the past year, with more than one in four organisations reporting malicious incidents linked to artificial intelligence, according to IBM.
- 2 Dec 2019
Cybercriminals Turn to Deepfakes, Target Enterprise Networks
The year 2020 will see a new level of cyber-attacks – fake audio-visuals are forecast to be increasingly used by criminals as a social engineering tactic to extort money from companies and…
- 13 May 2026
Kaspersky Challenges IT Leaders with Next-generation Cyber Protection Simulations
Kaspersky has expanded its Kaspersky Interactive Protection Simulation (KIPS) with new advanced cyberattack scenarios tailored specifically for IT organisations. The update introduces realistic…
- 11 Sept 2025
Education Sector Strengthening against Ransomware, but IT Teams Pay Personal Price - Sophos Report
Sophos, a global leader and innovator of advanced security solutions for defeating cyberattacks, has released its fifth annual Sophos State of Ransomware in Education report. The global study of 441…
- 22 Sept 2025
InnovateAI Lagos 2026 to Champion Responsible AI Across Africa
AI in Nigeria, the nation’s leading force in artificial intelligence advocacy and development, today announced the third edition of its flagship annual conference, InnovateAI . The 2026 conference…