Tunisia — Cyber Threat Profile
Tunisia overhauled its national cybersecurity architecture in September 2023, replacing ANSI with the new National Cybersecurity Agency (ANCS), which now holds a strengthened mandate covering cloud provider certification, device labeling, and CII resilience requirements. Online fraud rose 31% between 2023 and 2024, and Tunisia ranked among Africa's top 20 countries hit by ransomware, with 1,232 recorded cases in 2024. The National Cyberspace Strategy 2020 to 2025 is due for renewal. Finance, telecommunications, and government are the most targeted sectors. ANCS signed bilateral cybersecurity cooperation agreements with Italy and the UAE in late 2023.- National CERT/CSIRT: tunCERT
- Data protection authority: Instance Nationale de Protection des Données à Caractère Personnel (source: CNIL)
- World Cybercrime Index 2024 (origin significance): 0.22 / 100, #69 worldwide
- Secure Internet servers per 1M people (2024): 912.3 (source: World Bank)
- Internet users (2024): 76.5% of population (source: World Bank)
Threat actors targeting Tunisia
- Winter Vivern APT
- Hunters International Ransomware · 4 incident(s)
- The Gentlemen Ransomware · 2 incident(s)
- FunkSec Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- INC Ransom Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- KillSec Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- Qilin Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- RansomHub Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- Stormous Hacktivist · 1 incident(s)
- Titan Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- Windshift APT
Most targeted sectors
- Manufacturing 3 incident(s)
- Business & Professional Services 2 incident(s)
- Financial Services 2 incident(s)
- Transportation & Logistics 2 incident(s)
- Healthcare 1 incident(s)
- Retail & Consumer 1 incident(s)
- Technology 1 incident(s)
Recent claimed incidents
- monoprix.tn 2026-06-28 · Consumer Services
- Bouri Group 2026-06-04
- CRIT Tunisie 2026-05-18 · Business Services
- SETCAR 2026-05-12 · Transportation/Logistics
- Hopital La Rabta 2025-12-26 · Healthcare
- Alios Finance Group 2025-10-28 · Financial Services
- SETCAR 2024-12-21 · Manufacturing
- Smart-it-partner 2024-12-04 · Technology
- Maxcess Logistics 2024-07-01 · Transportation/Logistics
- ATL Leasing 2024-03-15 · Financial
- ATL 2024-03-12 · Business Services
- SOPEM 2024-02-13 · Manufacturing
- SOPEM Tunisie 2024-02-10 · Manufacturing