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.