Inside APAC's malvertising ecosystem: How scams spread through social media ads

**Executive summary:** Bitdefender Labs uncovered a widespread malvertising ecosystem across 13 APAC countries involving ~12,000 scam campaigns and ~400,000 paid-ad sightings; campaigns use curated ads on Meta, impersonation, redirect chains, and reused infrastructure to push health and finance scams, fake app downloads, scandal-driven phishing, and AI-themed investment fraud across markets.