Colombia — Cyber Threat Profile
Colombia launched its National Digital Security Strategy 2025-2027 on 24 June 2025, after facing roughly 36 billion attack attempts in 2024, the second-highest total in Latin America, concentrated in financial, healthcare and energy networks. The plan rests on four pillars covering digital governance, workforce development and updated regulation. National CSIRT colCERT has since expanded its monitored base from about 31 to roughly 1,300 entities and 35,000 websites, and the incidents it managed fell from 1,427 in 2024 to 697 in 2025. Ransomware persists as the leading threat, with LockBit 3.0 and BlackCat reported as the most active variants against financial and public-service targets.- Data protection authority: Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio (source: CNIL)
- World Cybercrime Index 2024 (origin significance): 0.70 / 100, #37 worldwide
- Secure Internet servers per 1M people (2024): 1,126.2 (source: World Bank)
- Internet users (2024): 79.3% of population (source: World Bank)
Latest Colombia coverage
- Fake compliance requests in Colombia plant a spying RAT 2026-10-03 · Cyber Incidents
- Blind Eagle hits Colombian officials with fake court notices 2026-09-29 · Nation-State
- Colombia warns of Linux ransomware that kills backups 2026-09-12 · Ransomware
- Colombia warns of a new ransomware crew hiring affiliates 2026-08-26 · Ransomware
- Fake court notices spread AsyncRAT across Colombia 2026-08-19 · Cyber Incidents
- Ransomware crew mined crypto in Colombia before encrypting 2026-08-10 · Ransomware
- Crime service slips fake texts into real bank threads 2026-08-05 · Cyber Incidents
- Attackers keep access to SharePoint servers after patching 2026-08-05 · Vulnerabilities
- Fake court notices in Colombia install a data stealing worm 2026-08-04 · Cyber Incidents
- Colombia links a Remcos spyware case to Blind Eagle hackers 2026-08-03 · Nation-State
Threat actors targeting Colombia
- APT-C-36 APT
- Qilin Ransomware · 17 incident(s)
- The Gentlemen Ransomware · 10 incident(s)
- LockBit Ransomware · 9 incident(s)
- RansomHub Ransomware · 6 incident(s)
- SafePay Ransomware · 6 incident(s)
- KillSec Ransomware · 5 incident(s)
- Akira Ransomware · 4 incident(s)
- FunkSec Ransomware · 4 incident(s)
- Stormous Hacktivist · 4 incident(s)
- Cl0p Ransomware · 3 incident(s)
- Krybit Ransomware · 3 incident(s)
- Meow Ransomware · 3 incident(s)
- NightSpire Ransomware · 3 incident(s)
- CMD Ransomware · 2 incident(s)
- DragonForce Ransomware · 2 incident(s)
- Everest Ransomware · 2 incident(s)
- INC Ransom Ransomware · 2 incident(s)
- Majinahanashi Ransomware · 2 incident(s)
- 3AM Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- APT73 Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- Audit Team Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- Deadlock Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- Dire Wolf Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- Emperador Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- FulcrumSec Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- Hunters International Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- Lynx Ransomware Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- Payload Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- Sarcoma Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- ShinyHunters Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- Space Bears Ransomware · 1 incident(s)
- GhostSec Hacktivist
- Machete APT
- SiegedSec Hacktivist
Most targeted sectors
- Healthcare 14 incident(s)
- Business & Professional Services 11 incident(s)
- Agriculture & Food 8 incident(s)
- Energy & Utilities 8 incident(s)
- Financial Services 8 incident(s)
- Manufacturing 7 incident(s)
- Technology 7 incident(s)
- Transportation & Logistics 7 incident(s)
- Retail & Consumer 6 incident(s)
- Government & Public Sector 5 incident(s)
- Education & Research 3 incident(s)
- Hospitality & Tourism 2 incident(s)
Recent claimed incidents
- Confipetrol 2026-10-11 · Energy & Utilities
- PIO PIO 2026-10-10 · Other
- ACI Proyectos SAS 2026-10-10 · Other
- Sociedad Portuaria Mardique S.A. 2026-10-08 · Transportation
- Empaques y Servicios Superiores S.A.S. (SUPERPACK) 2026-10-04 · Retail & E-Commerce
- Coosalud EPS (Coosalud Entidad Promotora de Salud S.A.) 2026-09-28 · Healthcare
- Agrocampo 2026-09-26 · Agriculture and Food Production
- Inversiones Bolívar 2026-09-24 · Financial Services
- UNISALLE-EDU.CO 2026-09-23 · Education
- Perimetral Oriental de Bogotá S.A.S. 2026-09-11 · Transportation
- EASY JOB S.A.S. 2026-09-10 · Professional Services
- TrainMe 2026-09-07 · Education
- El Carriel 2026-09-07 · Agriculture and Food Production
- PIT.local 2026-09-04
- Transportes Montejo S.A.S. 2026-09-01 · Transportation