U.S. Virgin Islands — Cyber Threat Profile
The U.S. Virgin Islands' cyber governance sits with the Bureau of Information Technology (BIT), the government's designated IT managed-services provider responsible for agencies' cybersecurity, which operates the Government Network & Operations Security Center; a Cybersecurity Advisory Council (3 V.I.C. §§ 10f, 10h, 10j) governs the territory's Cybersecurity Plan. Government bodies face recurring criminal attacks: ransomware encrypted V.I. Police Department records in April 2019, LockBit claimed emergency-management agency VITEMA in May 2024, the V.I. Lottery refused a $1 million ransom and rebuilt its network in 2025 (JFL Hospital detected its own breach that April), and a February 2026 ransomware incident locked the Economic Development Authority with a demand above $300,000. Observed activity is opportunistic ransomware and extortion, with no evidence of nation-state targeting.
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