Green Blood Group steals personal records and biometric data of the West African nation's nearly 20 million residents.

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Dark Reading

A new ransomware group called The Green Blood Group breached Senegal's Directorate of File Automation (DAF), exfiltrating up to 139GB of biometric data, national ID records, and immigration data belonging to nearly 20 million citizens. The attackers compromised a domain controller and a personal data server, maintained access for weeks, and published the data on a Dark Web leak site before the DAF publicly acknowledged the breach. A second cyberattack hit Sénégal Numérique SA shortly after, raising concerns about a coordinated offensive. Experts frame the incident as symptomatic of a continent-wide gap between digital ambition and cybersecurity maturity, noting that African governments often invest heavily in data collection but neglect security-by-design, data governance, and continuous risk management.

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