{"id":216104,"date":"2025-12-08T22:18:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-cyberattacks-down-82pc-but-threat-still-there-ca-warns\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T22:18:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:18:53","slug":"kenya-cyberattacks-down-82pc-but-threat-still-there-ca-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-cyberattacks-down-82pc-but-threat-still-there-ca-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Cyberattacks Down 82pc but Threat Still There, Ca Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Kenya recorded a plunge in cyber threats in the first quarter of the financial year, with attacks falling 81.6 percent to 842.3 million incidents, new data from the Communications Authority (CA) shows. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The decline follows a spike of 4.6 billion threats in the previous quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Despite the sharp drop, regulators say the threat environment remains volatile, with organisations still exposed to vulnerabilities exploited through outdated systems, weak passwords, and poor cyber hygiene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512080467.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Kenya recorded a plunge in cyber threats in the first quarter of the financial year, with attacks falling 81.6 percent to 842.3 million incidents, new data from the Communications Authority (CA) shows. The decline follows a spike of 4.6 billion threats in the previous quarter. Despite the sharp drop, regulators say the threat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":216105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[53078,258,256,46314,4688,430,257,254,6791,6853],"class_list":["post-216104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-82pc","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cyberattacks","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threat","tag-warns"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}