Headline : Cyberattacks targeting Kenya rise 5 times on AI-driven threats surge

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The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) has warned of the growing risk of cyberattacks orchestrated by criminals using artificial intelligence (AI), even as the number of attacks targeting Kenya jumped more than five times over the past year.

The CA data shows the National Kenya Computer Incident Response Team Coordination Centre (National KE-CIRT/CC) detected 971,440,345 cyber-attacks aimed at Kenya, particularly at State agencies, Internet and cloud service providers, and academic institutions between January and March.

This is a five-fold increase from the 187,757,659 cyber threats that the agency detected during the same period last year, signalling the worrying trend of growing attacks amid increased digitisation of the economy.

However, the CA has warned that cybercriminals are rapidly deploying AI to execute attacks to extend their social engineering efforts, spread malware, carry out adversarial attacks, and compromise critical information infrastructure and Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

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