Addis Ababa: Ethiopia recorded 5,856 cyber attacks in the first nine months of the current Ethiopian Fiscal Year, which started on July 8, an official has said. Solomon Soka, deputy director-general at Ethiopia Information Security Agency (INSA), said his agency managed to foil 97.7 per cent of those attacks, Xinhua news agency reported. “Most of the cyber attacks involved malware attacks on websites, with cyber attacks on infrastructure and online scams being the second and third most frequent forms of cyber attacks,” he said. “The cyber attacks had varied motives, including geopolitical, political and economic ones,” Soka said. Ethiopia is upgrading its largely traditional basic services infrastructure and government bureaucracy, using cyber technology as a key component.

Source: Ethiopian News May 08, 2022 03:01 UTC