Venezuela will be present at the Bogotá Industrial Fair 2026 (FIB 2026), which will be held in the Colombian capital from September 28 to October 2 of this year at Corferias.

 

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The country will showcase its advancements and services in key sectors, such as metalworking, construction, electricity generation, agribusiness, healthcare, tourism, and information technology.

Venezuela will be the “Guest Country” at the event, which is expected to draw more than 38,000 professional visitors and 460 companies from various continents. The agenda includes the “Venezuela 2026 Forum: Industry, Innovation, and Investment,” scheduled for September 29th; a meeting place for “public sector representatives, business leaders, and investors to address six thematic areas: industrial competitiveness, technology, energy, infrastructure, exports, and investment.”

The fair will provide an ideal venue for in-person and online B2B business matchmaking sessions to connect the country’s export offerings with international market demand.

M.Pino

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An analysis conducted in late 2025 by ESET, a leading company in proactive threat detection, highlighted the evolution of ransomware (data kidnapping) as one of trends to watch closely in 2026. This first quarter of the year confirms its importance, and the cybersecurity company analyzes the most attacked industries, which countries were most affected, the situation in Latin America, and the incidence of each group.

Topics of paramount importance and interest to both experts and cautious users who follow these incidents.

According to the ransomware.live report, the three groups that dominated the first quarter of the year were Qilin, The Gentlemen, and Akira, which together accounted for almost 900 victims, representing more than 30% of the total attacks (approximately 2,200).

Qilin ransomware took first place with more than 400 attacks during the quarter. This ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) group, which also held this position last year, took the professionalization of cybercrime to a new level, so to speak, by providing legal counsel to its affiliates to strengthen their leverage during ransom negotiations.

Second place, with almost 250 attacks, went to The Gentlemen. This RaaS group represents a new era: it is moving away from mass attacks to focus on tailored operations. A silent and far more dangerous model, according to ESET, that redefines the rules of the game with targeted and adaptive campaigns.

Akira completed this negative podium, with more than 200 attacks to its name, many in Latin America. Its spread was so widespread that it even put major cybersecurity agencies around the world on alert, including the FBI.

Regarding the industries most affected by ransomware during the first three months of 2026, ESET found the manufacturing, technology, and healthcare sectors to be the most impacted. Following closely behind were business services, construction, and financial services.

“What is clear is that cyber attackers do not choose their victims randomly, but rather seek out organizations where they can generate a strong impact or sense of urgency, whether due to the immediate need to have their systems available, because they cannot afford long operational downtime, or because they handle critical or sensitive information. Ransomware groups continue to focus on economic and reputational impact, targeting industries undergoing digitalization but demonstrating less maturity in cybersecurity,” says Mario Micucci, Cybersecurity Researcher at ESET Latin America.

Internationally, with more than 1,000 attacks recorded, the United States was the country most affected by ransomware during the first quarter of 2026. The countries that followed recorded only 100 attacks or fewer, such as Germany, Great Britain, and France. Canada completed the top five affected countries.

Regarding Latin America, Brazil (50 attacks) and Mexico (30) were the most affected countries, but incidents were also recorded in Argentina, Chile, Peru, Paraguay, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Guatemala, Panama, and the Dominican Republic

The first quarter of 2026 confirms the trend that ransomware is not a temporary or declining threat, but a consolidated and constantly evolving phenomenon. “The combination of highly active groups, new emerging actors, and increasingly targeted attacks demonstrates that the model remains profitable for cyber attackers. Looking ahead, the focus should be on how organizations can strengthen their prevention, detection, and response capabilities, especially in critical sectors and regions where cybersecurity maturity still has significant gaps,” concludes Micucci of ESET.

For more information on this topic, please visit: https://www.welivesecurity.com/es/ransomware/actividad-ransomware-primer-trimestre-2026/.

Additionally, for other useful preventative information, visit https://www.eset.com/ve/ in Venezuela, and follow them on social media @eset_ve, Instagram (@esetla), and Facebook (ESET).

With information and image reference ​​provided by ESET and Comstat Rowland

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Digital crimes are a threat to virtually every productive sector worldwide. Just as they empty people’s bank accounts, steal personal data, and impersonate others, hackers are finding new ways to affect sectors such as industry, healthcare, manufacturing, education, telecommunications, and supply chains, among others.

Internet criminals are using increasingly sophisticated methods, including the use of AI that allows for virtually imperceptible impersonation, to breach the protective barriers of individuals and businesses, as well as universities, oil facilities, healthcare centers, manufacturers, and more.

Among the most common attack methods is the introduction of malware into both personal and corporate computers to steal information. But cybercriminals also commit crimes through phishing, asset theft, card cloning at points of sale, malicious applications, and cyberespionage.

Losses from cyberattacks are in the millions. Beyond companies seeing their data exposed or simply losing it to hackers, there’s also the theft of assets, money in bank accounts that ends up in the hands of cybercriminals, data ransom demands, and operational disruption.

Solving all of this comes at a cost. In this sense, some projections of losses from cyberattacks this year point to more than $10.5 trillion.

M.Pino

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Blockchain technology allows the secure recording of transactions or data exchange. Its field of action is not exclusive to cryptocurrencies; today it is possible that the health sector uses this system in order to unify medical and technological efforts.

The public electronic book known as blockchain is revolutionizing the health sector and expanding the model of doing business. Given the nature of reliability and security of personal health information, the blockchain network allows to guarantee and share the protection of data, medical history and  medications.

Currently there are different applications to be managed in a clinic, allowing you to decentralize what is inherent to the sector and the social actors involved. One of the areas where its application can be visualized is in aesthetic medicine, since there is a lot of investment allocated for the care of prostheses and other resources to be grafted or applied during its intervention.

Block technology has made it possible to facilitate the control and management of the transfer process, in addition to avoiding fraud and possible scams that modify the expected results. One of the reasons why the blockchain is taken into consideration in the health sector is the incessant speculation of theft, fraud, forgery and alterations.

One of the advantages of this business model is the security it offers to the laboratory, pharmacy, doctor, clinic and patient, in addition to guaranteeing the privacy of users.

Another advantage is the guarantee and availability of clinical information, which cannot be altered by a third party, facilitating a secure and decentralized monitoring of the data generated by each of the processes inherent to clinical care.

M. Rodríguez

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