The National Kenya Computer Incident Response Team – Coordination Centre (National KE-CIRT/CC) detected over 2.5 billion cyber threat events during the three-month period between January - March 2025.

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This represented a 201.85% increase from the threat events detected in the previous period, October - December 2024.

Inadequate patching of systems, low user awareness of various threat vectors, including phishing and other forms of social engineering attacks, and the increasing use of AI-driven attacks and machine learning technologies are among the reasons for the rise in cyber threats that have been detected.