Cybercrime Surges in APAC as Digitalization Takes Hold

Interpol's 2025/2026 Asia and South Pacific Cyberthreat Assessment finds cybercrime accounting for roughly 30% of crime in many countries across 18 Southeast Asian and Pacific states, reporting large-scale scams and social-engineering campaigns, widespread use of infostealers and banking trojans, significant ransomware and DDoS activity, rising deepfake discussion among threat actors, and systemic security gaps in cloud security, incident response and cross-border intelligence sharing.