Tag: Cybersecurity

Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has spent the better part of the last two decades building one of the more sophisticated ...

The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) is procuring multiple cybersecurity partners to protect its customs technology stack, moving away from a ...

Equity Bank Kenya has confirmed that one of its customers suffered a loss after her email account was compromised and ...

A GitHub employee installed a malicious VS Code extension, and that single mistake gave hackers access to roughly 3,800 of ...

Kenya's cyber threat monitoring body detected over 3.3 billion threat events between January and March 2026, a 26% drop from ...

Your website’s Web Host Manager (WHM), WP Squared, and Control Panel (cPanel) may have a critical security flaw that lets ...

Kenya's tech sector grew in 2025 as mobile connections crossed 78 million and internet subscriptions hit 64.4 million. Mobile money ...

Early this month, Anthropic revealed its new model, Claude Mythos, and went ahead to release "Mythos Preview." Anthropic claimed Claude ...

Last year, this publication reported that the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) had faced cyberattacks on its core systems. This was ...

Kenya's financial system does not look the way it did a decade ago. Paying rent, settling utility bills, and even ...

Between December 2025 and January 2026, a single unknown person used a consumer AI chatbot to systematically dismantle the cybersecurity ...

PayPal has confirmed a data breach that exposed the personal information of about 100 customers who used its PayPal Working ...

Anthropic launched Claude Code Security yesterday, a tool that scans software codebases for vulnerabilities and proposes fixes, and the cybersecurity ...

Progress doesn't happen on its own. Behind every thriving business in Kenya, from the mandazi vendor who now accepts M-PESA ...

WhatsApp is rolling out Strict Account Settings, a new security feature that locks down accounts with the platform's most restrictive ...

Kenya's cybersecurity team caught 4.5 billion cyber threat events between October and December 2025. That's a 441% jump from the ...

Digital resilience used to mean having a reliable internet connection. Today, that’s no longer enough. Businesses operate across cloud platforms, ...

From July to September of this year, Kenya witnessed important developments in its cybersecurity environment. The National KE-CIRT/CC detected 842 ...

A recent study of Kenya’s cyberthreat landscape shows that there has been a sharp increase in sophisticated attacks targeting both ...

Security researchers at MTI have discovered Sturnus, a nasty piece of Android malware that's currently being tested in Central and ...

Kenya opened its 2025 National Cybersecurity Conference in Nairobi today, bringing together government officials, tech experts, and international partners to ...

The Kenyan government suffered a coordinated cyberattack earlier this morning that took down dozens of official websites across multiple ministries ...

Corporate security in Kenya is undergoing a major transformation. Instead of waiting for things to go wrong, companies are investing ...

Safaricom has reported a drop in cybersecurity incidents affecting its business customers. The number of cases has fallen by nearly ...

Retailers across the globe are confronting a growing ransomware threat that is becoming more damaging by the day. A new ...

Africa’s most influential technology and business leaders are gearing up for the CIO100 Symposium & Awards 2025, set to take ...

A hacking group called Kazu says it has stolen over 17 million files containing medical and personal records from M-Tiba, ...

Africa’s biggest celebration of digital innovation is almost here. Africa Tech Festival 2025, now in its 28th edition, will take ...

Trust has become the most valuable currency in the digital age. Every online payment, data exchange, and virtual interaction depends ...

Microsoft has unveiled its 2025 Digital Defense Report, offering a sweeping view of the global cyberthreat landscape and providing critical ...

Kenya ranked as the second most attacked country in Africa in September, according to the Global Threat Intelligence Report by ...

The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has established a new Banking Sector Cybersecurity Operations Centre (BS-SOC) designed to protect financial ...

Kenya's cybersecurity agency recorded 4.6 billion cyber threats between April and June 2025, an 80.8% increase from the previous quarter's ...

Today turned into a nightmare for thousands of travelers across Europe as a cyberattack knocked out electronic check-in systems at ...

Researchers have raised new concerns after revealing that a North Korean hacking group has been using OpenAI's ChatGPT to create ...