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Digital traffic attacks on Kenyan websites surge 114pc in a year
Attackers often use networks of malware-infected computers and other connected devices, known as botnets, to send large numbers of requests to a target at the same time.
Incidents of hackers flooding websites, servers and networks in Kenya with huge volumes of malicious traffic to make them inaccessible rose 114.3 percent in the year to June as cybercriminals target digital systems.
These cyber assaults, known technically as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, rose to 72.16 million in the year ended June 2026, up from 33.68 million a year earlier, according to the latest data from the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA).
