Cybersecurity Advisory: Strengthening Organizational Resilience

Dear Customer,

Recent cybersecurity intelligence and emergency consultations conducted across public and private sector organizations have highlighted an increase in active cyber threats affecting organizations operating within Nigeria's digital ecosystem. The evolving threat landscape underscores the need for organizations to reassess existing security measures and strengthen cyber resilience against increasingly sophisticated attacks.

Current threat intelligence indicates a coordinated campaign targeting organizations connected to third-party service providers, payment platforms, cloud environments, and other critical digital ecosystems. Following recent security incidents, attackers have increasingly shifted focus to trusted integrations, active API connections, and interconnected business environments to gain unauthorized access and compromise organizational infrastructure.

To reduce exposure to these threats, an upgrade to ESET XDR is strongly recommended as part of a comprehensive defence-in-depth security strategy. The solution delivers advanced Extended Detection and Response (XDR) capabilities for continuous threat detection and rapid incident response, Zero-Day Protection against emerging threats, Vulnerability & Patch Management to identify and remediate exploitable security gaps, as well as Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and Email Security to strengthen access controls and reduce the risk of phishing, credential theft, and administrative account compromise.

As an immediate mitigation measure, ESET XDR and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) trial deployments are available to provide organizations with enhanced visibility, faster threat detection, improved incident response capabilities, and an additional layer of protection while long-term security enhancements are being implemented.

Beyond endpoint protection, effective cybersecurity now depends on continuous visibility across the entire IT environment. Modern attacks rarely begin and end on a single device. Instead, threat actors move laterally across networks, exploit unpatched vulnerabilities, abuse compromised credentials, and leverage legitimate administrative tools to evade traditional security solutions. A proactive security strategy requires centralized monitoring, rapid threat detection, automated investigation, and timely remediation to minimize the potential impact of an attack before business operations are disrupted.

To address these challenges, ESET PROTECT Elite is recommended as a comprehensive cybersecurity solution for organizations seeking advanced protection against today's evolving threat landscape. Built around the ESET PROTECT Platform, the solution combines ESET XDR, Vulnerability & Patch Management, Cloud Office Security, Full Disk Encryption, Advanced Threat Defense, and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to deliver layered security across endpoints, cloud applications, email systems, and corporate data. This integrated approach enables organizations to strengthen cyber resilience, improve operational visibility, accelerate incident response, and reduce the risk of ransomware, phishing, credential theft, and other sophisticated cyber threats.

This advisory is intended solely to support stronger cybersecurity preparedness and reduce the operational, financial, and reputational impact associated with active cyber threats. The recommendation is based on current threat intelligence and security best practices, with the objective of helping organizations improve resilience against emerging attacks.

Further cybersecurity advisories, verified threat intelligence, and relevant security updates will continue to be shared as the threat landscape evolves.

Given the current threat environment, organizations are encouraged to prioritize a review of existing security controls and consider appropriate measures to strengthen overall cyber resilience.