The First Website to record Anonymous attacks in Africa
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Kenya
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Kenya, a country in East Africa bordering the Indian Ocean in south east, neighboring countries are Ethiopia, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
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With an area of 580,000 km², the country is somewhat larger than Metropolitan France or slightly more than twice the size of the U.S. state Nevada.
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Kenya has a population of 46 million people (2015). Spoken languages are Swahili and English (both official), and numerous indigenous languages mainly Kikuyu and Luhya.
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Largest and most populous city and the national capital of Kenya is Nairobi. Second largest city and the country's chief port is Mombasa.
History of the internet
Anonymous attacks
Way to Attack
Anonymous Statement
Legal actions against Anonymous
Cybersecurity law and Regulations
October 1995 was a turning point in Kenya’s communications history, when a leased line connection was established, providing Internet for the first time. At 32 Kbps, Kenya was at last connected to the Internet, and the dream of information sharing became a reality. The system’s bandwidth was low even for those days and not much for information gathering—but now, at least email did not have to wait to be polled up to six hours later.
in 2016, Anonymous has conducted a sophisticated cyber attack on the government of Kenya by breaching its Foreign ministry server, stealing a trove of data and ending up leaking some of it on the Dark Web.
The cyber attack was conducted under the banner of operation OpAfrica against child abuse, child labour and corruption in the African countries.
The dumped data contains confidential and non-confidential PDF and Docx files from the ministry server including email conversations, security related communication, international trade agreements and letters discussing the security situation in Sudan.
Anonymous utilized three different ways to conduct their attacks, as following
1- Distributied-Denial-of-Service (DDoS)
2- 5. SQL Injections
3- Rootkits
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Anonymous said via social media “It’s too late for Kenyan government to expect us”:
No legal action has been taken
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Kenya issued the Computer Misuse and Cybercrimes Act, No. 5 of 2018 Laws of Kenya
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the Act provides for offences relating to computer systems such an unauthorised access or interference, cyber espionage, cyber harassment, cybersquatting, phishing and cyber terrorism; contains provisions to enable timely and effective detection, prohibition, prevention, response, investigation and prosecution of computer and cybercrimes; and facilitate international co-operation in dealing with computer and cybercrime matters.