{"id":154261,"date":"2025-11-26T07:22:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/154261\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T07:22:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T07:22:08","slug":"malaysia-myanmar-hit-by-fraud-spike-as-ai-driven-incidents-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/154261\/","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\/nz\/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":154262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,90362,363,364,3561,3594,10116,1775,61273,111,139,69,1436,2441,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-154261","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-driven","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-fraud","13":"tag-hit","14":"tag-incidents","15":"tag-malaysia","16":"tag-myanmar","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-rise","21":"tag-spike","22":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}