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Nigeria has been ranked 5th in a global report on sources of cybercrime activities, coming behind Russia, which ranked number one, and Ukraine, China, and the United States, which occupied the second, third, and fourth positions respectively.
The report, which was described as the first-ever World Cybercrime Index, was produced by researchers from the Department of Sociology, University of Oxford, and the University of New South Wales, Canberra, identifies the globe’s major cybercrime hotspots by ranking the most significant sources of cybercrime at a national level.
Other countries that make the top 10 list of cybercrime hotspots include Romania, North Korea, United Kingdom, Brazil, and India.
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Tracing cybercrime sources
While noting that the geography of cybercrime offenders and the corresponding level of ‘cyber criminality’ present within each country has been largely unknown, one of the report’s authors, Dr Jonathan Lusthaus explains:
