DURING THE PRESIDENTIAL AND NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS, WE PREVENTED APPROXIMATELY 200 CYBERATTACKS ACCORDING TO FG

On Saturday, February 25, 2023, during the presidential and national assembly elections, the federal government stopped more than 200 cyberattacks.

Muhammad Abubakar, the managing director of Galaxy Backbone, a federal government-owned supplier of information and communications technology services, revealed this.

On Tuesday, March 7, Abubakar declared at a gathering in Abuja: “On the election day alone, we were able to block more than 200 ATTACKS and the next day, the ATTACKS geometrically escalated to around 1.2 million and all were blocked from our own enterprises.”

He claimed that a committee for business continuity and cyberspace protection had been established to safeguard and control online activity while improving the GBB’s technical services.