Kenya ranked easiest target in Africa for cyber attackers

Kenya accounted for over one out of every four of the two million online attacks in Africa ahead of Nigeria and Egypt. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Kenya accounted for over one out of every four of the two million online attacks in Africa ahead of Nigeria and Egypt as cybercriminals use Covid-19 information to gain unauthorised access to devices and networks, new data from Kaspersky has revealed.

In its quarter two report, the cybersecurity firm indicates that Kenya had more than half a million phishing attacks, coming in second to South Africa which has 616,666 spam and phishing attacks.

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