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Latin American Organisations Faced 2,640 Attacks per Week in 2025

Organisations in Latin America faced an average of 2,640 attacks per week in 2025, about 35% above the global average. The corpus contains almost no files from the region.

Constructed geometry · not a chart of case data
JurisdictionUSAthe affected organisation’s jurisdiction, not the actor’s suspected origin
TargetLatin American organisations
ActorMultiple
S. Rosler11 min readConfidence: medium2 sources reviewed

Organisations across Latin America faced an average of 2,640 cyberattacks per week during 2025, approximately 35% above the global average, with ransomware activity rising around 15% across the region.

Attacks Per Week Is A Telemetry Measure

This figure counts events observed by security products — scans, attempted exploits, blocked connections — not incidents. Most of what it counts is automated background noise that reaches every internet-facing organisation everywhere.

A 35% regional difference in that metric can reflect the product mix deployed, the sensor population, or the exposure profile of the estates being monitored. It is the vendor-telemetry caution this desk filed at 26-0513.

The Ransomware Figure Is More Useful

A 15% rise in ransomware activity is a count of incidents rather than of packets, and it is a modest, plausible number of the kind this desk has learned to prefer over dramatic ones.

Set against the fourfold telecom rise at 25-0714 and the 420% growth claim at 25-1108, 15% reads as a measurement somebody made rather than a headline somebody wanted.

And The Corpus Cannot Check Any Of It

This database contains no named Latin American incident. The four filters at 25-0502 apply in full: limited mandatory disclosure across most of the region, no equivalent to US collective redress, thinner research coverage, and reporting predominantly in Spanish and Portuguese.

So the corpus records a regional statistic it cannot verify against a single case file, which is an honest description of the position and not a satisfying one.

This is an analysis file

Built on published regional research, listed below. Attack-per-week figures are vendor telemetry, not incident counts. Corrections: corrections@forensicpost.com.

Sources
  1. Latin America cyberattacks surge: 2025 threat reportKiteworks
  2. Surging cyberattacks boost Latin America to riskiest regionDark Reading
S. Rosler
Covers extortion groups and leak-site economics. Verifies our sample sets.
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