Tag: Cybercrime

Yesterday, Anthropic released a 154-page threat intelligence report detailing how criminals, spies, and propagandists tried to weaponize Claude between December ...

For years, journalists and bloggers in Kenya have had to worry that getting something wrong in a sensitive story could ...

Kenya has launched a new manual meant to help police officers and prosecutors handle cybercrime cases from the moment they ...

SIM swap fraud in Kenya now involves international fraudsters who are operating locally. This comes after the Directorate of Criminal ...

Kenya is moving closer to joining the Budapest Convention on Cybercrime, a treaty that could make it easier for the ...

Half of all reported computer fraud cases in Kenya between February and July 2026 involved mobile money, either as the ...

The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) has today arrested 14 suspects associated with a website cloning scam to trick travelers ...

The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has walked back the most alarming interpretation of its new licensing rules for cyber ...

From August 14, you can no longer walk into a Kenyan cyber cafe and log on without saying who you ...

Detectives from the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) have today raided two premises in Kajiado County alleged to be hubs ...

The official State House President website, president.go.ke, was hacked early this morning, with its homepage replaced by a ransom message ...

The government has decided that Kenya cannot wait for AI to cause a crisis before regulating it. Over the past ...

Kenya's High Court has struck down major parts of the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes (Amendment) Act, 2025, ruling that the ...

Technology giant Google is filing a lawsuit aimed at stopping a cybercriminal group named Outside Enterprise. The group allegedly uses ...

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

Uganda’s latest immigration and cybercrime sweep has exposed what appears to be a tightly run scam operation inside a Kampala ...

There is something quietly telling about a prosecution office that loses the same argument twice and decides the solution is ...

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

For years, two sections of Kenya's Computer Misuse and Cybercrime Act sat on the books like a loaded gun pointed ...

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 ...

More cybercriminals have been arrested in Kenya in a collaborative operation between local and international law enforcement agencies. From December ...

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

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

Kenya's government just lost the power to shut down social media platforms, at least for now. High Court judge Lawrence ...

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

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 ...

Parliament and President William Ruto barely had a week to celebrate the new cybercrime law before it ran straight into ...

President William Ruto signed Kenya's controversial Cybercrime Bill into law a week ago, and it's already landed in court. Gospel ...

President William Ruto’s signing of the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes (Amendment) Act, 2024, has stirred widespread debate across Kenya’s digital ...

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