Caribbean Information Security and Data Privacy News Roundup
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2 min readOct 20, 2024
Q3 2024 — July 1, 2024 through September 30, 2024
- Nigerians behind attempt to defraud Jamaica’s NWC of US$1 million
(Caribbean National Weekly, July 17th) - Caribbean digital vulnerability exposed by global IT outage — expert
(Barbados Today, July 20th) - Shaping the digital future of the Caribbean!
(Jamaica Observer, July 31st) - Suriname police arrest Trinidadian and Guyanese for ‘skimming’
(Loop, August 2nd) - Jamaica suffered 4 million cyberattack attempts in first half of 2024
(Loop, August 22nd) - Cyber attack blamed for school books not yet arriving in St Lucia
(Loop, August 23rd) - Increasingly successful cyber-attacks on the island of Puerto Rico
(The News Journal, August 23rd) - Grenada cybersecurity team warns of rising employment scams
(Loop, September 7th) - Latin American & the Caribbean countries most targeted by phishing attacks in 2021
(Statista, September 13th) - EU & Latin America and the Caribbean bi-regional seminar on peace, security and defence challenges
(European Union External Action, September 16th)
