Latin America and the Caribbean Cybercrime Landscape

In 2025, cybercriminals targeting Latin America and the Caribbean demonstrated increasing sophistication and resilience, exploiting legacy systems, rapid digital adoption, and weak regional coordination to launch financially motivated attacks—primarily through phishing, ransomware, and mobile malware—against critical sectors like healthcare, finance, and government, while leveraging encrypted messaging and established dark web forums to communicate, monetize, and adapt swiftly to law enforcement disruptions.