Kenya restores presidential website after cyberattack

Kenya’s official presidential website, president.go.ke, is back online after hackers defaced its homepage and demanded a ransom of five Bitcoin, worth approximately KSh41.3 million (about $320,000), in an attack detected on 18 July 2026.

The attackers replaced the site’s homepage with messages targeting President William Ruto directly, alongside a cryptocurrency wallet address, and threatened to leak unspecified information about the president if payment was not made by 6pm the same day.

The defaced page read in part: “This message is the third time for you; before we leak everything about you. Do a payment of 5 bitcoins to the Bitcoin wallet… if you want peace before 6 o’clock this evening.”

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