INTERPOL warns. Asia is being targeted.
INTERPOL warns. Asia is being targeted by ransomware, phishing and AI scrambling.
The Hacker News website mentioned the disclosure of INTERPOL or International Polices within INTERPOL's 2025 / 2026 Asia and South Pacific Cyberthreat Assessment Report that the Asia-FASIFIC area has a heavy outbreak of Phishing scams, which has detected more than ten thousand cases from three types in the region, based on data collection from January 2024 to March 2025. In addition to that, INTERPOL also found that cyber crimes committed within the region that are members of that organization are reported to be up to 30% of all crimes committed within the country.
According to INTERPOL, attacks within the region have introduced AI technology, artificial intelligence, RaaS or Ransomware-as-a-Service malware, and social engineering, in a major industrial attack, in which organizations have found that the use of AI can be deceived to transfer money more easily through facial forgery technology. In 2024) alone, there were 135,000 ransomware attacks in the region, affecting a variety of industries - real estate, finance, and manufacturing.
In the area of scam attacks, INTERPOL has found that there is a huge scam industry. The countries that are often home to scammer companies are often located in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and the Philippines, focusing on fake love attacks to deceive victims, or Romance Scam, where all the scams of these crooks damage the entire region by up to US $37 billion (99,948,000,000 baht).
There are also many interesting statistics, such as
Banking Trojan and Infostealer are very popular in this region, with hackers often using RedLine, Lumma Stealer, LokiBot, Negasteal, and ZBot.
About 5.5 out of every 1,000 people are victims of Phishing, compared to the global average of about 2.9 victims in every 1,000.
System bombardment attacks (DDoS or Distributed Denial-of-Service) hit 92% in 2024 (2024) compared to previous years.
System Intrusions are the cause of data breaches, up to 80% against all.
System Misconfiguration, weak Encryption, insecure API keys, and uncovered system surveillance.
Ransomware groups often rely on the company's own regulatory policies to put pressure on them to pay.
Deepfake is often used to blackmail (Blackmail), intimidate, and extort money from victims.








































































