Overview
- Mexico ranks second in Latin America for attempted attacks, behind Brazil, according to Fortinet’s latest Global Threat Report.
- FortiGuard detected 17 billion active scans in the period, indicating roughly 36,000 probing attempts per second.
- Threat activity is shifting from indiscriminate campaigns to targeted exploitation designed to disrupt operations and bolster extortion.
- Manufacturing is the most attacked industry for a second consecutive year, with telecommunications, health and financial services also heavily targeted.
- Offensive groups employ tools such as FraudGPT and WormGPT, while defenders integrate generative and discriminative AI to detect malware and prioritize alerts.