Coverage of cybersecurity incidents, policy, public services, privacy, advisories, and regional developments connected to Colombia.
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Colombia covers cybersecurity and information-security developments connected to Colombia, including incidents, policy, privacy, advisories, research, and news affecting organizations, public services, and digital systems in the area.
For practitioners, the tag provides geographic context for developments involving Colombia's organizations, services, partners, and users. Individual articles provide the specific technologies, threats, sectors, and operational implications relevant to each development.
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Cyber threats across Latin America are increasingly targeting government systems, from disruptive attacks in Puerto Rico to a surge of probes against Colombia’s health sector.
VirusTotal has discovered a phishing campaign hidden in SVG files that create convincing portals impersonating Colombia's judicial system that deliver malware. [...]
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered five distinct activity clusters linked to a persistent threat actor known as Blind Eagle between May 2024 and July 2025
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new phishing campaign that's being used to distribute malware called Horabot targeting Windows users in Latin American countries like Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Peru, Chile, and Argentina
Also: WazirX Seeks Moratorium to Restructure Debt After HackThis week, the SEC sent OpenSea a Wells notice, WazirX sought protection from creditors, Ryan Salame reconsidered his guilty plea, objections to the FTX bankruptcy reorganization plan were filed, U.S. police recovered pig-butchering scam funds, and Colombia accused Worldcoin of privacy violations.
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a threat actor known as Blind Eagle that has persistently targeted entities and individuals in Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Panama, and other Latin American nations
The threat actor known as Blind Eagle has been linked to a new campaign targeting various key industries in Colombia
A financially motivated threat actor tracked as Blind Eagle has resurfaced with a refined toolset and an elaborate infection chain as part of its attacks targeting organizations in Colombia and Ecuador
Threat actors behind a recent malware campaign have been using the stolen information of bank customers in Colombia as lures in phishing emails designed to infect them with the BitRAT remote access trojan, according to cloud security firm Qualys. [...]
This week's big news was the Colombia health system being severely disrupted by a ransomware attack on Keralty, one of the country's largest healthcare providers. [...]
The attack disrupted IT operations, websites and scheduling of medical appointments
The Keralty multinational healthcare organization suffered a RansomHouse ransomware attack on Sunday, disrupting the websites and operations of the company and its subsidiaries. [...]