Hackers Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof Isa Ali Pantami has said 12,988,978 cyber-attacks were carried out during the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections period in Nigeria.
He said the attacks were from local and foreign sources, adding that they were made on public websites and portals and averaged around 1,550,000 daily, the said in a statement on Tuesday.
Pantami said the attacks hit 6,997,277 on presidential election day.
“It is worth noting that our (cybersecurity) centers successfully blocked these attacks and/or escalated them to the relevant institutions for appropriate action,” the minister said.
The minister disclosed that his ministry has established a committee 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 run-up to the 2023 general elections, threat intelligence revealed an astronomical increase in cyber threats to Nigerian cyberspace.
