Kenya: How to Protect Yourself Against Cyber Crime

1 November 2013

Last week I received a distress call from one of our clients. The client's email account had been hacked. The attacker changed the victims' password and wrote e-mails to the victim's friends and relatives that she was in some trouble and in need of money. The attacker then requested her contacts to send them money through one of the mobile phone money transfer services.

Fortunately the team located the spyware, removed it and deleted the infected account from the mail server. They also took time to send apology messages that negated the attacker's messages to her contacts. Unfortunately, some had already sent money. They shared their story to keep our readers informed.

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