Kenya Cyber Security Report 2015 Kenya Cyber-Intelligence Statistics Top Malicious Activity in Kenya Malware attacks, Denial of Service (DOS) attacks and Adware attacks took the lead during this year’s cyber 77% security analysis in terms of volume. Malware Attacks attacks 23% Denial of Service, Adware & Spyware Attacks 41,377 Malware Categories 68% of the malware category was uniquely customized for the African Region. The Virut malware is slowly Customized Malware penetrating the Kenyan cyberspace. Once it has 68% successfully penetrated the computer, this type of malware is able to spread itself by copying to fixed, removable and network drives. Local Malware Variants Gh0st RAT Trojan Backdoor.Win32.PcClient Is a backdoor Trojan family with several components including a key logger, backdoor and a root kit. MultiPlug.J Checkin a Trojan horse for windows platform that users of gh0st net use to obtain unauthorized access to remote computers thus gaining real time access of the systems. Is an adware that exhibits malicious traits such as root kit capabilities. Win32.Sality Infects files on local, removable and shared drives. It propagates itself from one PC to another. A bot creates a P2P connection and receives URL’s of additional files to download, after download these files are decrypted and executed. 39

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