Despite a lack of public Caribbean cases of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, there are numerous reports of cyber attacks against banks, government websites in the Bahamas and St. Vincent and Caribbean tax authorities. There has also been publication of 1.3 million files from the Bahamas’ corporate registry. The attacks have led to calls for action to address the issues within Caribbean cybersecurity to protect data from exposure. Latin America and the Caribbean will be the new frontier for cyber attacks, according to a study from the Centre of Strategic Studies and McAfee published in daily.
Despite a lack of public Caribbean cases of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, there are numerous reports of cyber attacks against banks, government websites in the Bahamas and St. Vincent and Caribbean tax authorities. There has also been publication of 1.3 million files from the Bahamas’ corporate registry. The attacks have led to calls for action to address the issues within Caribbean cybersecurity to protect data from exposure. Latin America and the Caribbean will be the new frontier for cyber attacks, according to a study from the Centre of Strategic Studies and McAfee published in early 2016.