{"id":4875,"date":"2025-06-25T06:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T06:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/25\/africa-surge-cybercrime-law-enforcement-struggles\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T06:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T06:05:15","slug":"africa-surge-cybercrime-law-enforcement-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/25\/africa-surge-cybercrime-law-enforcement-struggles\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Sees Surge in Cybercrime as Law Enforcement Struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Africa Sees Surge in Cybercrime as Law Enforcement Struggles<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Cybercrime accounts for more than 30% of all reported crime in East Africa and West Africa, with online scams, ransomware, business email compromise, and digital sextortion taking off.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Robert Lemos, Contributing Writer<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/cyber-risk\/africa-surge-cybercrime-law-enforcement-struggles\">Go to gbhackers.com<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Sees Surge in Cybercrime as Law Enforcement Struggles Cybercrime accounts for more than 30% of all reported crime in East Africa and West Africa, with online scams, ransomware, business email compromise, and digital sextortion taking off. Robert Lemos, Contributing Writer Go to gbhackers.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[261],"class_list":["post-4875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darkreading","tag-darkreading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}