Cybercrime Surges in APAC as Digitalization Takes Hold

A broad surge in cybercrime and sophisticated attacks is reported across APAC and globally: threat actors are leveraging AI (for social engineering, fake dev guides, AI-assisted interviews) and abusing cloud/services (GitHub Pages, SheetBest, Microsoft Teams) to host or hide malicious activity. Significant supply-chain compromises and credential-theft campaigns were disclosed (tampered JetBrains IDE plugins, backdoored WordPress plugins, GitBait phishing kit, SniperDz platform dismantled). New and evolving malware families and campaigns include SprySOCKS expanding to Windows, Rokarolla Android