{"id":8067,"date":"2022-11-27T16:39:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T15:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/27\/gangs-of-cybercriminals-are-expanding-across-africa-investigators-say\/"},"modified":"2022-11-27T16:39:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T15:39:08","slug":"gangs-of-cybercriminals-are-expanding-across-africa-investigators-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/27\/gangs-of-cybercriminals-are-expanding-across-africa-investigators-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Gangs of cybercriminals are expanding across Africa, investigators say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Online scams such as banking and credit card fraud are the most prevalent cyberthreat, say Interpol<\/p>\n<p>Police and investigators fear organised gangs of fraudsters are expanding across sub-Saharan Africa, exploiting new opportunities as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the global economic crisis to make huge sums with little risk of being caught.<\/p>\n<p>The growth will have a direct impact on the rest of the world, where many victims of \u201chugely lucrative\u201d fraud live, senior police officials have said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/27\/gangs-of-cybercriminals-are-expanding-across-africa-investigators-say\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/cd30a02a01346c0683ed56c8ad28e0558bfe9239\/0_250_3944_2366\/master\/3944.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0e141881b67c4804391eab6b36b472f1\" title=\"Gangs of cybercriminals are expanding across Africa, investigators say\" \/>Online scams such as banking and credit card fraud are the most prevalent cyberthreat, say Interpol<br \/>\nPolice and investigators fear organised gangs of fraudsters are expanding across sub-Saharan Africa, exploiting new opportunities as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the global economic crisis to make huge sums with little risk of being caught.<br \/>\nThe growth will have a direct impact on the rest of the world, where many victims of \u201chugely lucrative\u201d fraud live, senior police officials have said. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online scams such as banking and credit card fraud are the most prevalent cyberthreat, say Interpol Police and investigators fear organised gangs of fraudsters are expanding across sub-Saharan Africa, exploiting new opportunities as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and the global economic crisis to make huge sums with little risk of being caught. The &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/27\/gangs-of-cybercriminals-are-expanding-across-africa-investigators-say\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gangs of cybercriminals are expanding across Africa, investigators say<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}