{"id":160201,"date":"2025-11-26T06:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T06:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/160201\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T06:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T06:54:10","slug":"malaysia-myanmar-hit-by-fraud-spike-as-ai-driven-incidents-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/160201\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia, Myanmar hit by fraud spike as AI-driven incidents rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/spotlight\/cybersecurity\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cybersecurity<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">UK company study shows scams growing more sophisticated<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/5.jpeg\" alt=\"20251126 Myanmar Scam Center\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Soldiers raid an online scam center in Myanmar&#8217;s\u00a0Karen state in this image provided by the Myanmar military\u00a0on Oct. 19. \u00a9 AP<\/p>\n<p>KENTARO TAKEDA<\/p>\n<p>November 26, 2025 14:48 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">SINGAPORE &#8212; Online fraud cases have risen sharply in Malaysia and Myanmar this year, as sophisticated scams using artificial intelligence spread, a study released Tuesday showed, posing a significant threat to the region&#8217;s digital economies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity UK company study shows scams growing more sophisticated Soldiers raid an online scam center in Myanmar&#8217;s\u00a0Karen state&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,78684,218,219,536,17550,61,89749,60,13935,31513,21019,1609,80],"class_list":["post-160201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-driven","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-fraud","tag-hit","tag-ie","tag-incidents","tag-ireland","tag-malaysia","tag-myanmar","tag-rise","tag-spike","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}