14 DAY TRIAL // A collective known as Rwandan Hackers has been highly active lately, targeting a lot of important websites, mostly from Africa, their latest targets being three bank sites from Kenya.
The sites of Prime Bank Limited (primebank-kenya.com), the Development Bank of Kenya (devbank.com) and the CfC Stanbic Bank ( cfcstanbicbank.mobi) were all breached as part of OpKenyaBank, the hackers leaking sample data from their databases.
They also provided a screenshot to show that they had access to a control panel allegedly used by Prime Bank Limited employees.
At the time of writing, the website of the Prime Bank is offline, possibly while its administrators address the security issues that allowed the hackers to gain access.
As mentioned before, Rwandan Hackers were highly active lately. They also breached a number of 5 government websites belonging to the state of Uganda.
The websites of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Justice, Law and Order Sector (JLOS), Office of the Prime Minister, Petroleum Exploration and Production Department of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, and the National Medical Stores, were all defaced to host a protest message against a bill that posed a threat to the freedom of press.
“A new bill tabled before parliament threatens the freedom of the press in Uganda. The country's journalists need the world to speak out against it. That's why we hack Uganda gov website,” the hackers said at the time.
“One of the reasons why Museveni was originally labelled one of a new breed of African leaders was because of media freedoms.”
The same collective also claimed to have identified a vulnerable NASA subdomain and managed to gain access to the databases of The Standard, a Kenyan online news publication, leaking more than 1,000 usernames, password hashes and email addresses.