The State of Nigerian Cybersecurity

In the first half of 2026, Nigerian organizations faced a rising volume of attacks, several confirmed data breaches, and continued exposure through at least one data broker still selling access to compromised records.

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esentry x Darktrace

For H1 2026, esentry's findings sit alongside original research from Darktrace.

Across Africa, network-based activity drove 76.1% of Darktrace-detected incidents, with ransomware present in 38.8% of cases, and Nigeria alone saw ransomware in 80% of investigated incidents despite accounting for just 5% of regional volume.

Information presented here is from the Darktrace Annual Threat Report and recent Darktrace findings in collaboration with esentry.

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3.5 Million Alerts
Eleven Minutes to Escalate

The Eye doesn't blink, It also doesn't get fooled. For the first half of 2026, we pulled back the curtain on the attacks standard security missed, tracing stealthy credential abuse, silent workflow breaches, and weaponized trust wherever our teams found it across Africa's threat landscape.

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Breaches Weren't Forced
They Were Granted

A developer's laptop, A password used twice. In H1 2026, the entry point was rarely a vulnerability, it was a credential, a session, or a tool the organization had already decided to trust.

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1000+

Events
Investigated

The Hunter in the Darkness

In ancient Egypt, the Eye of Horus stood for royal protection, a ward against chaos, and the promise that nothing could escape its watchful gaze. Modern security requires the same unbroken vigilance, across every environment, at every hour.

Here is what our vigilance uncovered in H1 2026:

  • 35 investigations closed clean.
  • 1 live compromise exposed.
  • No business impact reported.

Standard automated tools missed it. Our human hunters found it in the dark.

35+ Organizations, 26+ Countries,
One Operator.

Behind the alias ByteToBreach isn't an institution. OSINT investigation traced it to a single individual operating out of Thessaloniki, Greece, actively advertising access to a Nigerian bank's data on underground forums.

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175 Security Tests
100% Success Rate

The Sword of Horus doesn't wait to be attacked. It strikes first, to find the wound before an enemy does. In H1 2026, esentry turned that blade on 175 real engagements, and got through every single time.

What you'll learn in the report:

  • Why authentication alone didn't stop us
  • The one weakness that recurred in most engagements
  • What separated the organizations that held up from the ones that didn't
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₦1B+
Drained in the Dark.
See how the Eye found what those systems couldn't.
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Three major security incidents in H1 2026; Fintech, Payment infrastructure, Core banking. Different sectors, different attack paths, one common thread. Every one of them slipped past the defenses built to stop it.

The Eye on Ghana

3,500+ Confirmed Incidents. One Quarter.

Ghana's digital economy is growing fast, so is its threat landscape. Between January and June, 352 investment scams cost victims a combined GH₵3.4 million.

  • Credential theft through fake login portals
  • Government and telecom systems under sustained phishing pressure
  • AI-assisted social engineering, built to sound convincingly human
  • Financial services carrying the heaviest share of targeted attacks
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Real attacks move in minutes and hours, not days. Test your team's readiness before a real attack tests it for you.

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