{"id":234774,"date":"2026-06-22T02:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T06:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/interpol-warns-phishing-ransomware-and-ai-scams-are-rising-across-asia-pacific\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T05:00:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:00:22","slug":"interpol-warns-phishing-ransomware-and-ai-scams-are-rising-across-asia-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/interpol-warns-phishing-ransomware-and-ai-scams-are-rising-across-asia-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERPOL Warns Phishing, Ransomware, and AI Scams Are Rising Across Asia-Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/06\/interpol-warns-phishing-ransomware-and.html\">INTERPOL Warns Phishing, Ransomware, and AI Scams Are Rising Across Asia-Pacific<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/06\/interpol-warns-phishing-ransomware-and.html\">https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/06\/interpol-warns-phishing-ransomware-and.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-22 02:06:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"thehackernews.com\">thehackernews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There has been a significant increase in cybercrime in Asia and the South Pacific, especially due to rapid digitalization and the involvement of organized criminal networks.<\/li>\n<li>Phishing is the most prevalent and financially damaging form of cybercrime in the region, with significant cases reported in several countries.<\/li>\n<li>Over half of INTERPOL member countries in the region report that cybercrime accounts for at least 30% of all crimes nationally.<\/li>\n<li>The sophistication of cybercriminals, enhanced by AI and social engineering, has driven up ransomware attacks, deepfake scams, and romance baiting scams.<\/li>\n<li>Banking trojans and malware are also noteworthy trends, with a high rate of individuals in the region falling for phishing scams.<\/li>\n<li>Other notable trends include surging DDoS attacks, frequent system intrusions, and the exploitation of misconfigured systems and weak cybersecurity measures.<\/li>\n<li>Law enforcement agencies, aided by INTERPOL, are intensifying their collaborative efforts to combat cybercrime through coordinated operations, joint investigations, and training programs to enhance cyber resilience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INTERPOL Warns Phishing, Ransomware, and AI Scams Are Rising Across Asia-Pacific https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/06\/interpol-warns-phishing-ransomware-and.html Publish Date: 2026-06-22&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiCZyCo0qR6bFgeSdNHxD4d56tgq1YYTWI2aMHnDz63YlOYGrMbPnbpAumvGLNyZxxfLVTYEi7VBiVscqTpCC2sgfMtX-YFVAvy_flQZTKinHhT6qtKIc6boJfuGC4sbpNl9qYfblyZZizkaDRkMIScE3upxa-vBcGYeL6YqTBufD1ro3t0Mpwa6O8Ag4iU\/s1600\/asia.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234776,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234774\/revisions\/234776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}