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Kenya in focus as East Africa flagged over mobile cash fraud
Advances in AI have allowed criminals to automate cyber-attacks. The technology has made it more difficult for victims to detect phishing campaigns, malicious requests for information or money and malware deployment.
Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia and Rwanda are among Africa’s fastest-growing cybercrime hotspots, driven by mobile money fraud and advances in artificial intelligence (AI).
A new report by Interpol notes incidents of scammers tricking mobile network providers into moving phone numbers to new SIM cards they control, technically called SIM swap fraud, rose by 327 percent in Kenya in 2025.
