Tag: Cyberattacks

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

New data from cybersecurity and antivirus firm Kaspersky has revealed that Sub-Saharan Africa faced 42.4 million web attacks and 95.6 ...

Microsoft has issued an urgent alert regarding "active attacks" targeting its SharePoint server software, commonly used by government agencies and ...

Hackers are increasingly turning to one of the internet’s most trusted and overlooked systems to deliver malware: DNS, the Domain ...

Kenya's Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA) has introduced mandatory cybersecurity reporting requirements. Insurance companies must now report major cyber attacks within ...

The continent of Africa is facing a rise in cybercrime activities, and Kenya is right at the centre of this ...

The cybersecurity space in Kenya has witnessed a huge escalation in threats during Q3 of the 2024/2025 financial year, with ...

Following recent U.S. airstrikes on the Iran nuclear facilities, cyberattacks linked to Tehran and pro-Palestinian hacking groups have increased, targeting ...

This Message Is Not for the IT Department This message is for CEOs, board members, policy makers, and entrepreneurs whose ...

It is no secret that the Kenyan population continues to be extremely vulnerable to cyberattacks especially as smartphone penetration keeps ...

As with any major event, telecommunications plays a key role in broadcasting the event around the world. Telecommunications is also ...

The 30th Summer Olympics games are ongoing in France capital city of Paris. 15,000 athletes from across the world are ...

In a worrying trend, global cyber attacks have risen sharply in the second quarter of 2024, with Africa experiencing the ...

Recent cyberattacks waged on Kenya's online infrastructure have left various Government and privately owned services crippled as many citizens question ...

Cyber risk is on all-time high, and features among the top issues in many organizations and businesses in a world ...

When 3G was phasing out 2G networks, one of the main advantages of the new technology was that, unlike 2G ...

Following the spread of the initially thought to be ransomware, Petya, security analysts have a theory that Petya might not ...

Yup, its only been one month since the WannaCry cyber attack was stopped and we already have a second go ...

A few weeks ago, there was a cyber attack on Qatar News Agency (QNA), Qatar's national broadcaster, that left the ...

A ransomware is a malicious software that infects a computer and restricts the user to get access to the computer ...