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Global cyberattacks surge across Latin America and Africa as ransomware activity rises
Check Point Research, the Threat Intelligence arm of Check
Point Software Technologies, has released its December 2025 Global Cyber Attack Statistics, revealing a cyberthreat landscape increasingly defined by ransomware growth, regional concentration of cyberattacks and rising data exposure linked to enterprise use of Generative AI.
In December 2025, organisations globally continued to face sustained cyberpressure, with the average number of cyberattacks per organisation per week reaching 2,027, a 1 % increase from the previous month, and a 9 % increase from December 2024.
Regionally, Latin America saw the sharpest increase in cyberattacks worldwide with organisations experiencing an average of 3,065 cyberattacks per week, representing a 26 % year-over-year increase, the highest growth rate of any region.
Africa saw a year-on-year decline, indicating a shift in criminal focus rather than a reduction in threat levels.
Of the four African countries included in the report, Nigeria at 4,622(+ 2 % YoY) had the highest number of weekly attacks per organisation, followed by Angola at 4,002(– 10 % YoY), Kenya at 2,130(– 41 % YoY) and South Africa 1,850( 17 % YoY).
The most attacked industries in Africa in December were financial services, transportation and logistics, and government.
“ The data highlights how attackers are expanding operations into fast-digitising regions where security maturity varies significantly,” said Hendrik de Bruin, Head Security Consulting, Check Point Software.
Argility partners with digital agency to deliver Google Cloud-powered unified data architecture
The Argility Technology Group( ATG) has announced a partnership with an award-winning digital agency specialising in online performance marketing and building digital platforms that deliver results for the world’ s leading luxury travel brands.
“ This organisation partnered with ATG to design and implement a modern data warehouse environment on Google Cloud,” said Matthew Chittenden, ATG’ s Google Cloud Growth Lead.
“ As a performance-driven digital agency, they manage marketing campaigns across multiple digital platforms, including Google Analytics, HubSpot, Meta Ads and CRM systems, for some of the world’ s leading luxury travel brands.”
Argility delivered a scalable enterprise data warehouse that consolidates all of this organisation’ s marketing and CRM data into a single, trusted source of truth. Built using Google BigQuery, Data Transfer Service, Cloud Run Functions and Looker Studio, the solution automates data ingestion and reporting across platforms.
This cloud-based infrastructure eliminates data silos and provides real-time performance dashboards, enabling its teams to make informed decisions faster and with greater accuracy.
According to Chittenden, the implementation has resulted in enhanced efficiencies, accuracy and scalability.
“ Beyond unifying data, the new architecture is future-ready, supporting the planned integration of retrieval-augmented generation( RAG) and Gemini AI to unlock deeper contextual insights and advanced analytics in the near future,” he said.
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