A review of cyber security attack trends in Kenya

Abstract

The COVID 19 pandemic led to a situation where Kenyan institutions were forced to embrace remote learning, remote working and e-commerce services. These basically led to an upsurge in financial cyber activity and with it came an upsurge in cybercrime. This paper conducted a review of available secondary data on cyber attacks in Kenya with the aim of identifying the most popular trends embraced by attackers while perpetrating cyber-attacks on financial institutions and their clients. The paper was also able to obtain a ranking of the most popular trends associated with attacks within the Kenyan cyber space.

Keywords: Cybersecurity, cyber-attacks, cybercrime, malware, phishing

DOI: 10.7176/JIEA/11-2-09

Publication date: November 30^th 2021