Firms on the alert as cyber threats spike

Hacker using a mobile phone with icon diagram features to hack into cyberspace and steal online personal data. [Getty Images]

Kenyan businesses are on high alert as increased digitisation fuels incidences of cybercrime that has seen firms lose millions of shillings.

The adoption and evolution of new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) in the recent past has also meant that hackers have gained access to more sophisticated tools with which to carry out attacks undetected.