{
  "id": 11534264,
  "title": "Building a cyber-resilient AfricaGhana’s experience and Dunstan Guba’s perspective on the future of cybercrime investigation",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/02/building-a-cyber-resilient-africaghanas-experience-and-dunstan-gubas",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-02T21:21:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Adom Online",
    "slug": "adom-online",
    "url": "https://www.adomonline.com/building-a-cyber-resilient-africaghanas-experience-and-dunstan-gubas-perspective-on-the-future-of-cybercrime-investigation/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Cybercrime on the rise in Africa, with Ghana at the forefront of combatting the digital threat. INTERPOL's 2026 African Cyber threat Assessment reveals that artificial intelligence is responsible for 55% of reported cybercrimes across the continent, making attacks faster, easier to scale and harder to detect. Dunstan Guba, the Cyber Intelligence Lead of the Criminal Investigation Department of Ghana Police Service, works at the intersection of technology and public safety. As a cybercrime investigator, digital forensics expert and educator, Guba is leading initiatives to protect both physical and digital crime scenes. In Ghana, Dunstan Guba led the AMBER Alert initiative in collaboration with Meta, using Facebook, Instagram and Messenger to distribute targeted alerts to quickly mobilize communities in the event of a missing or abducted child. Despite the growing threat of cybercrime, law-enforcement capacity remains a significant concern across African countries. Ghana has recorded a steady increase in cybersecurity incidents, with a 49% rise in incidents between 2024 and 2026. Legislation, such as Ghana's Cybersecurity Act of 2020, is only one step in addressing this challenge. Investigators must now understand how attackers operate, from initial entry to data exfiltration and financial transactions, to effectively preserve digital evidence and bring perpetrators to justice.",
  "summary": "A feature on Africa’s changing cybercrime landscape, digital evidence, public safety and the future of policing Africa is going digital at extraordinary speed. Criminals are moving just as fast.More than 1.1 billion mobile subscriptions were recorded across Africa in 2025, according to INTERPOL. Phones now carry our money, conversations, businesses, identities and access to public […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}