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    A report on the Global Cybercrime Index has ranked Nigeria 5th among the top countries with the greatest cybercriminal threat with Russia topping the list, followed by Ukraine, China, and the USA.   The report produced by researchers from the Department of Sociology, University of Oxford and the University of New South Wales, Canberra was said to be the first ever ‘World Cybercrime Index’, which identified the global major cybercrime hotspots by ranking the most significant sources of cybercrime at a national level.  

An international team of researchers has unveiled the first-ever World Cybercrime Index. After years of extensive research, an international team has unveiled the inaugural "World Cybercrime Index," a comprehensive ranking of the world's leading cybercrime hubs.

A majority of the world's cybercrime originates from a few countries in the world.

The U.S. is the fourth leading purveyor of cybercrime around the world, only behind Russia, Ukraine, and China, based on the World Cybercrime Index compiled by UK and Australian researchers published in the journal PLOS One, Newsweek reports.

The ‘world-first’ index ranks countries by their cybercrime threat level, with the UK ranked eighth.