INTERPOL warned that artificial intelligence is now linked to more than half of reported cybercrime trends in Africa

INTERPOL’s latest African Cyberthreat Assessment identifies increasing use of AI by criminal groups alongside business email compromise, ransomware, online scams and other cyber-enabled financial crime. The assessment places these developments within a broader transnational threat in which digital infrastructure, fraud networks and illicit financial flows increasingly operate across national borders. INTERPOL lists the report as published on 3 August 2026.