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Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Jamaica. 22 – 24 March – The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge toured Jamaica in celebration of the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. [1] 7 July – Jamaica reports its first case of monkeypox. [2] 8 September – Accession of Charles III as King of Jamaica following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. [3]
According to Alexa Internet, the site is the 14th most visited website in Japan as of May 1, 2022. [3] On June 3, 2024, Kadokawa Taiwan reported a cyberattack leaking personal and corporate information. [4] Two days after the initial attack, Wired stated that ransomware attacks are "accelerating in 2024". [5]
When Jamaica gained independence in 1962, the murder rate was 3.9 per 100,000 inhabitants, one of the lowest in the world. [4] In 2022, Jamaica had 1,508 murders, for a murder rate of 53.34 per 100,000 people, [5] the highest murder rate in the world. [2] [6] Jamaica recorded 1,680 murders in 2009. [7] In 2010, there were 1,428, in 2011, 1,125.
LockBit is a cybercriminal group proposing ransomware as a service (RaaS). Software developed by the group (also called ransomware) enables malicious actors who are willing to pay for using it to carry out attacks in two tactics where they not only encrypt the victim's data and demand payment of a ransom, but also threaten to leak it publicly if their demands are not met.
On November 15, 2022, the PROTECT Our Children Act of 2022 was passed by the United States Senate, reauthorizing ICAC and the National Strategy for Child Exploitation Prevention and Interdiction through 2024. [5] On December 6, Congress motioned to agree without objection. [5]
On March 20, 2024, the CSRB published a report detailing how in May 2023, a cyber threat actor classified by Microsoft as STORM-0558 compromised the mailboxes of a broad range of victims in the United States and United Kingdom, including email accounts in the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Commerce, and U.S. House of Representatives. [14]
According to the 2022 Unit 42 Ransomware Threat Report, in 2021 the average ransom demand in cases handled by Norton climbed 144 percent to $2.2 million, and there was an 85 percent increase in the number of victims who had their personal information shown on dark web information dumps. [18]
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean. The country had a population of 2,825,352 as of 2023, having the fourth largest population in the region. Jamaica's annual population growth rate stood at 0.08% in 2022. As of 2023, 68.9% of Jamaicans were Christians in 2011, predominantly Protestant.