A Close Analysis 2019 Cyber Threat Groups in E.Africa
Good Afternoon, This is a close analysis of Cyber Threat Group in East Africa that are hitting Financial Institutions every month. These groups started their operations and grew from Kasarani which is currently known by Cyber Security community as the Kenyan Silicon Valley of Cyber Gangs. Read the report, released to the public in 2019. http://www.onnetservices.io/Public/2019_TOP_SEVEN_LOCAL_CYBER_THREAT_GROUPS.... -- -- OnNet CTO http://www.onnetservices.io
John Thanks for sharing. Who did this report? Regards *Ali Hussein* Tel: +254 713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim <http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim> Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the organizations that I work with. On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 6:31 PM Gichuki John Chuksjonia via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Good Afternoon,
This is a close analysis of Cyber Threat Group in East Africa that are hitting Financial Institutions every month.
These groups started their operations and grew from Kasarani which is currently known by Cyber Security community as the Kenyan Silicon Valley of Cyber Gangs.
Read the report, released to the public in 2019.
http://www.onnetservices.io/Public/2019_TOP_SEVEN_LOCAL_CYBER_THREAT_GROUPS....
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Thanks Ali. My Threat Intelligence Analysts Team took time over several years at the frontlines when these guys were a huge cartel and after they broke up into small groups and started recruiting and training young boys out of colleges and universities to hit banks, Saccos, MFIs, Gava etc. On Sat, 8 Feb 2020 at 06:11, Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke> wrote:
John
Thanks for sharing. Who did this report?
Regards
*Ali Hussein*
Tel: +254 713 601113
Twitter: @AliHKassim
Skype: abu-jomo
LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim <http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim>
Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the organizations that I work with.
On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 6:31 PM Gichuki John Chuksjonia via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Good Afternoon,
This is a close analysis of Cyber Threat Group in East Africa that are hitting Financial Institutions every month.
These groups started their operations and grew from Kasarani which is currently known by Cyber Security community as the Kenyan Silicon Valley of Cyber Gangs.
Read the report, released to the public in 2019.
http://www.onnetservices.io/Public/2019_TOP_SEVEN_LOCAL_CYBER_THREAT_GROUPS....
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John This is interesting. Thanks for sharing. Regards *Ali Hussein* Tel: +254 713 601113 Twitter: @AliHKassim Skype: abu-jomo LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim <http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim> Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the organizations that I work with. On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 1:09 PM Gichuki John Chuksjonia <chuksjonia@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Ali.
My Threat Intelligence Analysts Team took time over several years at the frontlines when these guys were a huge cartel and after they broke up into small groups and started recruiting and training young boys out of colleges and universities to hit banks, Saccos, MFIs, Gava etc.
On Sat, 8 Feb 2020 at 06:11, Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke> wrote:
John
Thanks for sharing. Who did this report?
Regards
*Ali Hussein*
Tel: +254 713 601113
Twitter: @AliHKassim
Skype: abu-jomo
LinkedIn: http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim <http://ke.linkedin.com/in/alihkassim>
Any information of a personal nature expressed in this email are purely mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the organizations that I work with.
On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 6:31 PM Gichuki John Chuksjonia via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Good Afternoon,
This is a close analysis of Cyber Threat Group in East Africa that are hitting Financial Institutions every month.
These groups started their operations and grew from Kasarani which is currently known by Cyber Security community as the Kenyan Silicon Valley of Cyber Gangs.
Read the report, released to the public in 2019.
http://www.onnetservices.io/Public/2019_TOP_SEVEN_LOCAL_CYBER_THREAT_GROUPS....
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Hi Chuks, Any reason why they grew from Kasarani and which part of Kasarani?, is it because of the numerous Student Hostels? Regards Barrack Otieno On Friday, 07-02-2020 at 18:31 Gichuki John Chuksjonia via kictanet wrote: Good Afternoon, This is a close analysis of Cyber Threat Group in East Africa that are hitting Financial Institutions every month. These groups started their operations and grew from Kasarani which is currently known by Cyber Security community as the Kenyan Silicon Valley of Cyber Gangs. Read the report, released to the public in 2019. http://www.onnetservices.io/Public/2019_TOP_SEVEN_LOCAL_CYBER_THREAT_GROUPS.... -- -- OnNet CTO http://www.onnetservices.io
There is a high likelihood that’s the reason, because most of these gang leaders usually recruit straight out of college and brainwash the young kids. And once the young boy is hooked, with the first fee of maybe 100,000/= he wants to learn more on how to hack and they start learning new things and eventually have a capability to penetrate banks that don’t do RedTeams or any serious blackbox penetration testing. You have to know, these hacks are usually Targets of Opportunity. So as they grow in the Cyber Gangs they learn the ways to hide money after a heist and realize they can earn more by their own and end up branching out and building a new gang group. And that’s why now, we have around 10 gang groups with the Seven doing major heists around East and Central Africa. On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 09:49, Barrack Otieno <barrack@kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Hi Chuks,
Any reason why they grew from Kasarani and which part of Kasarani?, is it because of the numerous Student Hostels?
Regards
Barrack Otieno
On Friday, 07-02-2020 at 18:31 Gichuki John Chuksjonia via kictanet wrote:
Good Afternoon,
This is a close analysis of Cyber Threat Group in East Africa that are hitting Financial Institutions every month.
These groups started their operations and grew from Kasarani which is currently known by Cyber Security community as the Kenyan Silicon Valley of Cyber Gangs.
Read the report, released to the public in 2019.
http://www.onnetservices.io/Public/2019_TOP_SEVEN_LOCAL_CYBER_THREAT_GROUPS....
-- -- OnNet CTO
-- -- OnNet CTO
These are Interesting revelations Chuks. Do you have specific explanations on how they pull the heists? On Thu, Feb 13, 2020, 12:08 PM Gichuki John Chuksjonia via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
There is a high likelihood that’s the reason, because most of these gang leaders usually recruit straight out of college and brainwash the young kids. And once the young boy is hooked, with the first fee of maybe 100,000/= he wants to learn more on how to hack and they start learning new things and eventually have a capability to penetrate banks that don’t do RedTeams or any serious blackbox penetration testing. You have to know, these hacks are usually Targets of Opportunity.
So as they grow in the Cyber Gangs they learn the ways to hide money after a heist and realize they can earn more by their own and end up branching out and building a new gang group.
And that’s why now, we have around 10 gang groups with the Seven doing major heists around East and Central Africa.
On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 09:49, Barrack Otieno <barrack@kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Hi Chuks,
Any reason why they grew from Kasarani and which part of Kasarani?, is it because of the numerous Student Hostels?
Regards
Barrack Otieno
On Friday, 07-02-2020 at 18:31 Gichuki John Chuksjonia via kictanet wrote:
Good Afternoon,
This is a close analysis of Cyber Threat Group in East Africa that are hitting Financial Institutions every month.
These groups started their operations and grew from Kasarani which is currently known by Cyber Security community as the Kenyan Silicon Valley of Cyber Gangs.
Read the report, released to the public in 2019.
http://www.onnetservices.io/Public/2019_TOP_SEVEN_LOCAL_CYBER_THREAT_GROUPS....
-- -- OnNet CTO
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We usually give out some of our research on same page shared here earlier. Full link with several documents can be found on www.onnetservices.io/Public On that page you can click blog to get detailed public Cyber Threat Intelligence. Several threat groups heists and their Tactics, Techniques and Procedures have been “Outed” there making some Financial Institutes harder to penetrate. And since most of them are targets of opportunity, those who have followed with Local CTI have become harder to hit. We are trying to promote sharing, coz when you tell your neighbor how the thieves came to your household you as the next victim will be ready and you will cover the tactics and tradecraft used by the same thugs and stop them cold. On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 16:38, Mwendwa Kivuva via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
These are Interesting revelations Chuks.
Do you have specific explanations on how they pull the heists?
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020, 12:08 PM Gichuki John Chuksjonia via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
There is a high likelihood that’s the reason, because most of these gang leaders usually recruit straight out of college and brainwash the young kids. And once the young boy is hooked, with the first fee of maybe 100,000/= he wants to learn more on how to hack and they start learning new things and eventually have a capability to penetrate banks that don’t do RedTeams or any serious blackbox penetration testing. You have to know, these hacks are usually Targets of Opportunity.
So as they grow in the Cyber Gangs they learn the ways to hide money after a heist and realize they can earn more by their own and end up branching out and building a new gang group.
And that’s why now, we have around 10 gang groups with the Seven doing major heists around East and Central Africa.
On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 09:49, Barrack Otieno <barrack@kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
Hi Chuks,
Any reason why they grew from Kasarani and which part of Kasarani?, is it because of the numerous Student Hostels?
Regards
Barrack Otieno
On Friday, 07-02-2020 at 18:31 Gichuki John Chuksjonia via kictanet wrote:
Good Afternoon,
This is a close analysis of Cyber Threat Group in East Africa that are hitting Financial Institutions every month.
These groups started their operations and grew from Kasarani which is currently known by Cyber Security community as the Kenyan Silicon Valley of Cyber Gangs.
Read the report, released to the public in 2019.
http://www.onnetservices.io/Public/2019_TOP_SEVEN_LOCAL_CYBER_THREAT_GROUPS....
-- -- OnNet CTO
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Ali Hussein -
Barrack Otieno -
Gichuki John Chuksjonia -
Mwendwa Kivuva