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INTERPOL Warns Phishing, Ransomware, and AI Scams Are Rising Across Asia-Pacific

ID: 115acffe-e7fb-5caf-b575-464367b97267

STIX ID: report--115acffe-e7fb-5caf-b575-464367b97267

Feed Name: The Hacker News

Threat Score
78/100

Date Published: 2026-06-22

Date Updated: 2026-06-22

Author: [email protected] (The Hacker News)

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INTERPOL's 2025/2026 Asia and South Pacific Cyberthreat Assessment reports a dramatic regional rise in cybercrime driven by rapid digitalization and uneven cyber maturity, highlighting phishing as the most prevalent and costly crime, an estimated 135,000+ ransomware incidents in 2024, proliferation of banking trojans/infostealers (e.g., RedLine, Lumma, LokiBot), a 92% surge in DDoS, and the industrialization of AI/deepfake-enabled scams by transnational organized crime impacting real estate, manufacturing, and financial sectors.

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