This afternoon, official government sites have been apparently hacked by a group of dark web hackers.
The cybersecurity breach occurred at midday (3/06/2019) as reports began to surface online that the official sites of government institutions were indeed tampered with.
According to reports from I.T experts, the hackers’ collective identifying themselves as KURD Electronic Team carried out the illegal site breach successfully on a series of sites including National Development Implementation and Technical Communication (NDICT) and ICT Authority-run Integrated Financial Mangement Information Systems (IFMIS).
Other websites supposedly hacked by the KURD Electronic team include the National Youth Service site, Kenya Climate Change Knowledge Portal site, and many others.
According to the KURD Electronic team site, their activities include and are not limited to homepage defacement, mass defacement, and IP Address locations. The brazen hackers identified themselves and branded the sites, to ensure they work was unmistakable.