Kenya cyber attacks up by half to 37m in one quarter

ICT minister Joe Mucheru: In 2017, he warned banks were some of the institutions targeted in computer attacks globally. FILE PHOTO | NMG

Kenyan organisations were hit by about 37.1 million cyber threats in the last three months of last year compared to the previous quarter, representing a 47.3 percent increase.

New data from the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) shows that its incident response centre detected growing cases of malware, web application attacks, system misconfiguration and online abuse.

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