Kenya to only grant visas on arrival after online visa system hacked

Following the failure of an online application platform that made the majority of government services unavailable, Kenya said on Thursday that it will begin granting visas upon arrival to all travelers.The problem that occurred on the e-citizen site, which offers more than 5,000 government services including e-visas, was believed to be the consequence of hacking; […]

Cases of Cyber-Attacks in Kenya Rise to 11.2 Million

Security researchers have found that 11.2 million cyber-attacks hit organizations in Kenya in the first quarter of 2019, this is a 10.1 percent increase in the number of security incidents compared to the previous quarter. The Kenya Communications Authority (CA) reports that the Incident Response Center has detected an increase in malware, web application attacks, […]

Anonymous Linked Team Hacks Kenyan Oil Firm Against Police Brutality

Anonymous backed World Hacker Team (WHT) breached the servers of National Oil Corporation of Kenya and leaked workers’ data against police brutality! Anonymous doesn’t cease to make headlines this year. Only yesterday we learnt that it has topped the list of most active hacker group in the first half of 2016 and today we are reporting that World […]

OpIcarus Finds More Targets as Banks in Panama, Bosnia and Kenya Go Offline

Anonymous and Ghost Squad have conducted another series of cyber attacks on banking websites in Kenya, Panama, Bosnia and Herzegovina — The hacktivists vow to carry on targeting the financial giants! It’s been over a week since Anonymous and Ghost Squad began conducting cyber attacks on banking websites worldwide. It’s the weekend now but the hacktivists […]

Anonymous Leaks 1TB of Data from Kenya’ Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Anonymous leaked confidential documents from the ministry servers against government corruption. The online hacktivist Anonymous has conducted a sophisticated cyber attack on the government of Kenya by breaching its Foreign ministry server, stealing a trove of data and ending up leaking some of it on the Dark Web. The cyber attack was conducted under the banner of […]

OpAfrica: Anonymous Hacks Kenyan Oil Refinery Website

After #OpCanary Anonymous Revives #OpAfrica with Targeting Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited The online hacktivist Anonymous is seeking to wipe-out evils like child labour, corruption and injustices from the world are in full form nowadays. Only a few days ago the group revived its seemingly dead campaign against multinational corporations, labeled as Operation Canary and now […]

President of Kenya Website Hacked by Indonesian hackers

On 11th May 2015, the President of Kenya (Uhuru Kenyatta) website was hacked where its homepage was replaced by hackers with one of their own — The group behind this hack is an Indonesian based Gantengers Crew. The famous Indonesian based hackers from Gantengers Crew hacked and defaced the official website of President of Kenya last Monday. […]

Attorney General of Kenya Website Hacked by Dz Mafia Algerian Hacker

Attorney General of Kenya Website Hacked by Dz Mafia An Algerian hacker going with the handle of Dz Mafia has hacked and defaced the official website of Attorney General of Kenya. Hacker left a deface page along with a message on the hacked website cursing USA and greetings his team. However, the hacker didn’t mentioned any […]

Google Kenya Hacked and Defaced by Tiger-M@te Hacker

A Bangladeshi hacker going with the handle of Tiger-M@te has hacked and defaced the official website of Google Kenya (www.google.co.ke). Other hacked websites includes Kaspersky, Youtube, MSN, Bing, Dell, Western Union, Linkedin, HP and Microsoft Kenya Hacker left his deface page on Google Kenya and all other hacked websites without explaining any reason, yet hacking Google itself […]

Kenyan Phone to have Unique IP Address to Combat Cyber Crimes

Africa has faced a number of cyber crimes this years. Zimbabwe Uganda and South Africa has faced massive losses this year. This is proven by a stat which list all about the cyber crimes in Africa : “In the first quarter of this year, 8,903 cyber security incidents were reported in Africa and of those, […]