Category: IT Security

Lusaka, Zambia, August 12, 2025/ — The African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) is supporting a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) training initiative to advance the implementation of Africa’s continental development blueprint, Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want (http://apo-opa.co/4miWmzo).

Johannesburg, South Africa// — MTN, Africa’s leading mobile network operator, has partnered with MTV Base, the number one youth and pop culture brand in Africa, to launch the Room of Safety, an innovative, youth-led movement to raise awareness about online child safety and promote positive digital behaviours across the continent. 

In August 2025, Accra will host an extraordinary gathering at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) as UCAP — the Union Catholique Africaine de la Presse — stages its triennial Congress.

South Africa// — In April, two of Britain’s biggest retailers got hit by a massive cyberattack by the notorious Scattered Spider group, leading to substantial financial losses, operational disruptions and compromised customer data (http://apo-opa.co/40O1faD).

The Cyber Security Authority (CSA), in a coordinated multi-agency operation with the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and the Police Cybercrime Unit, has dismantled a sophisticated cyber fraud syndicate operating from Sasaabi, a community along the Dodowa road in the Greater Accra Region.

Three separate indictments involving Ghanaian nationals have been unsealed in the United States, as part of a sweeping federal crackdown on transnational romance fraud schemes targeting elderly Americans.

Africa remains balanced on the edge of the digital divide. As of 2024, only 37-38% of Africans used the internet due to limited access and high costs, and approximately half the population – 600 million people – lack access to electricity.

Agentic AI systems—autonomously managing tasks like supply chain optimisation and financial forecasting—are on track to transform enterprise operations in the coming decade.

Johannesburg, South Africa// — Beneath the surface of GenAI’s outputs lies a massive, mostly unregulated engine powered by data – your data. And whether it’s through innocent prompts or habitual oversharing, users are feeding these machines with information that, in the wrong hands, becomes a security time bomb.