Kenya’s communications regulator recently reported that the country faced a huge number of 860 million cyber-attacks in the past year.
The regulator said that the number, complexity, and size of cyber-threats targeting Kenya’s important information systems have greatly increased.
In 2017, Kenya had 7. 7 million cyber attacks.
In July, a big cyber attack by a group called Anonymous Sudan happened. They stopped people from using over 5,000 online government services in Sudan. These services included things like applying for visas, passports, and driver’s licenses.
The attack made it so that people couldn’t book train tickets or use their phones to send money.
The Communications Authority of Kenya said that in the past year, 79% of attacks were carried out by cyber criminals who hacked into the computer systems of organizations.
The regulator also mentioned that 14% of the attacks involved harmful software, 6. 5% involved cybercriminals overwhelming servers with excessive traffic to overwhelm their systems, and the rest of the attacks focused on targeting web applications.
The people in charge say that Kenya is now the third most targeted country by cyber criminals in Africa, after Nigeria and South Africa.
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