Kenya’s Ministry of Education website has been hacked by Kurdish hackers 1877 Team.
On Monday, January 31, 2022, the main website was inaccessible with most browsers indicating that the website was inaccessible.
However, some of the subdomains in the website like the Nemis (National Education Management Information System) were spared in the hack.
In 2017, another Kurdish hacker took down Ireland’s National Treasury Management Agency, which manages Ireland’s debt.
Kurdish people are an Iranian ethnic group native to the mountainous region of Kurdistan in Western Asia, which spans southeastern Turkey, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, and northern Syria.
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It is not yet clear the motive behind the cyberattack on Kenya’s Ministry of Education.
The hackers also took access of the the Kenya’s Directorate of National Cohesion and Values’ website and the NEPAD/APRM Kenya Secretariat, denying all visitors access to information on the website.
This comes two years after the Kurdish hackers – W4r10k, managed to intrude several State websites leaving a series of incomprehensible text on sites. The Ministry of ICT Cyber Security team was in June 2019 forced to take over the operations of multiple government websites after the hack.
The hack resulted in denial of access to various websites including that for the Integrated Financial Management Information System. The IFMIS system was however up and running with only the website affected by the hack.
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