Phishing and Scams Hit the Roof in Kenya and Nigeria With a 438% and 174% Increase in the Number of Detections in Each Country Respectively in Q2 2022

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Kaspersky analysis has revealed that attacks related to data loss threats (phishing and scams/social engineering) increased significantly in Africa in Q2 2022 in comparison with the previous quarter. The company’s security solutions detected 10,722,886 phishing attacks in Africa in Q2. Kenyan users were influenced the most by this type of threat: there were 5,098,534 phishing attacks detected