Federal Government says a total of 12,988,978 cyber attacks were recorded during period of the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections in Nigeria.
The attacks, which originated from both within and outside Nigeria, were made on public websites and portals and averaged around 1,550,000 daily.
Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof Isa Ali Pantami, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday.
He, however, said the attacks rose to 6,997,277 on presidential election day.
“It is worth noting that our (cybersecurity) centres successfully blocked these attacks and/or escalated them to the relevant institutions for appropriate action,” the minister said.
He said a committee set up by his ministry to curtail the activities of cyber criminals during the elections started work on February 24, 2023 and ended work on February 28.
Psntami 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.”
The minister added that in the runup to the 2023 general elections, threat intelligence revealed an astronomical increase in cyber threats to Nigerian cyberspace.