The National Kenya Computer Incident Response Team – Coordination Centre (National KE-CIRT/CC) detected over 840 million cyber threat events during the three-month period between October to December 2024, which represented a 27.82% increase from the threat events detected in the previous period, July - September 2024.
The increase in detected cyber threats can be attributed to the increase in use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies, inadequate patching of information systems, low levels of awareness about different threat vectors such as phishing and other types of social engineering attacks, hacktivism, among others.
