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Out of the more than 206 000 mobile malware attacks blocked by Kaspersky\u00a0solutions for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META) region in just 6-months measured, between January to June 2021, over 30\u00a0000 of these attacks combined originated from Nigeria (14\u00a0071), Kenya (10\u00a0697), and South Africa (5\u00a0499). 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