NAIROBI, Kenya June 30 – Kenya’s complete cyberattacks elevated by 201.7 p.c to 2.5 billion threats between January and March 2025, up from 840.9 million recorded throughout the earlier quarter (October and December final yr).
The newest sector statistical report by the Communication Authority of Kenya (CA) attributes the surge within the assaults to system vulnerability threats amongst Kenyan corporations, which rose from 752,441,233 to 2,470,257,079 threats throughout the first quarter of the yr.
Web utility assaults additionally rose by 11.8 p.c from 4,542,939 threats recorded final yr to five,081,236 threats between January and March this yr, underscoring the necessity to fight the rising dangers within the nation’s cybersecurity panorama.
“The variety of cyber threats detected throughout the quarter elevated by 201.7 per cent to 2.5 billion from 840.9 million threats reported final quarter,” CA acknowledged.
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) assaults, nonetheless, decreased from 15.1 million threats recorded over the past quarter interval of 2024 to 4 million threats this yr.
Additionally, the report revealed decreased malware and brute-force assaults throughout the interval beneath assessment.
Due to the rise within the variety of cyber-attack threats, the Authority issued a complete of 13.2 million advisories to Kenyan corporations, a rise from 11.6 million advisories issued over the past quarter of 2024.
The advisories included malware, brute power assaults, distributed denial of service and cell utility assaults.
“A complete of 13.2 million advisories have been issued in response to the cyber threats detected, representing a 14.2 p.c enhance in comparison with 11.6 million advisories issued final quarter,” the report concluded.
According to CA, the ICT sector throughout the nation demonstrated regular development throughout the interval between January and March 2025, marked by a common development in energetic cell subscriptions, cell cash subscriptions, cell knowledge and broadband subscriptions, primarily pushed by efficient buyer retention campaigns.
