- Services hosted on websites of various government and private entities could not be accessed on Thursday, July 27
- Cyber attackers dubbed Anonymous Sudan have been established as the ones behind the websites' security breach
- Kenya's pronouncement on the state of the conflict in Sudan has been pointed to as the motivation behind the unforeseen attacks
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Nairobi - It has been established that a racket of cyber attackers from Sudan is responsible for the cyber security breach in a host of the Kenyan government and private entities' platforms.
On Thursday, July 27, several public and private-owned websites were down after attempts by hackers to infiltrate.
The spree to attack the websites disrupted the running of services, with the affected entities having to issue updates to their visitors, users and clients and apologising for the inconvenience.
Services down after cyber security breach
State agencies, media corporations, and banks, among others, were the target of the said hackers.
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The e-Citizen platform, Kenya Power and Lighting Company, Kenya Railways, Safaricom, Absa Bank, KCB and Standard Chartered Bank are among the casualties of the attacks.
The attacks majorly barred users from accessing a website, online service, or connected device by flooding the servers with internet traffic.
Safaricom's MPesa services were down; those seeking to transfer funds from their respective banks to the mobile money wallet were inconvenienced.
Buying of power tokens from KPLC was also disrupted.
Also, the passengers using the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) could not print their tickets due to a system disturbance, the Kenya Railways Corporation announced.
The group has been labelled Anonymous Sudan.
Tach Cabal describes the racket as "a pro-Russian hacktivist group responsible for a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack which intermittently took several websites offline."
The attack on the Kenyan web pages was due to the statements Nairobi released doubting the sovereignty of the government in Khartoum.
Kenya in Sudan's bad books
Sudan has not been on good terms with Kenya over its position in the conflict there; it purports Nairobi had taken sides and had a soft spot for the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
In June, Khartoum rejected the appointment of Kenya’s president, William Ruto, to lead the mediation between the rival groups.
Besides Kenya, the group has a history of attacking other renowned websites, among them Microsoft.
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