The report counted 21 confirmed dumps of information to the dark web, but Parasram estimates that twice that number were breached.
“The year 2026 will likely see continued convergence of criminal innovation and AI capabilities, demanding that defenders adopt equally sophisticated technologies and intelligence-led approaches.”
Mobile and web application vulnerabilities affect 90.9 per cent of respondents in the 2025 report and these weaknesses are contributing to the areas of greatest cybersecurity concern.
The Qilin ransomware group has become increasingly active in the Caribbean in 2025.
AI is an enabler. Threat actors are getting better at communication in English using ChatGPT.
The Lockbit3, 8Base, RansomEXX, Royal and Hive ransomware groups are all international criminal businesses who do not discriminate based on company size, business sector or location.
The NIBTT has reported the incident to the Trinidad and Tobago Cyber Security Incident Response Team (TT-CSIRT) under the Ministry of National Security.
AlphaV’s darkweb onionsite was siezed by a coalition of law enforcement agencies and shut down today.
Cybersecurity researcher Shiva Parasram confirms that at least one of the links to published data files is a collection of 3.4 GB company information.
Payment is demanded in crypto currency because it is easily transferable across the Internet and avoids cross-border currency challenges.
“We have not yet found evidence of identity theft or fraud related to this event.”
One hallmark of the company’s responses to the incident has been how efficiently it has worked to make itself the villain in the matter.
According to Dennis a sample of customer records from 2013 to 2023 has been posted as a proof of the hack.
According to FalconFeeds.IO, a Twitter feed reporting on breaches, tstt.co.tt and bmobile.co.tt were compromised, with exfiltration of 6GB of company data.
Once malware is in the system, it establishes a connection to the infiltrator’s computer and transmits information gathered from its initial beachhead.
