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Why attacks rise sharply during the long holidays
The night-time window during holidays has emerged as particularly high-risk, allowing attackers to move laterally within networks, escalate privileges and exfiltrate data without triggering immediate alarms.
Cybercriminals are increasingly timing major attacks to coincide with long public holidays, exploiting predictable operational slowdowns to breach systems, steal data and siphon funds when oversight and response capabilities are weakest.
A recent warning by the Sacco Societies Regulatory Authority (Sasra) has brought this vulnerability into sharp focus, raising broader questions about how organisations manage digital risk during predictable periods of disruption.
