Data analysis<\/p>\n
Asia-Pacific cyber threats: volume vs insurance severity<\/p>\n
Each bubble is one of the top five cybercrime types ranked by INTERPOL across 18 member countries. Horizontal: case volume. Vertical: insurance claims severity. Bubble size: pace of escalation. Hover for detail.<\/p>\n
High vol \/ High severity High severity \/ Lower vol Moderate severity \/ High vol Emerging \/ Accelerating<\/p>\n
Ransomware: high volume, very high severity. Online scams: very high volume, high severity. Banking trojans: high volume, moderate severity. BEC: moderate volume, high severity. Deepfakes: lower volume, escalating severity. <\/p>\n
Ransomware avg claim<\/p>\n
$508,000<\/p>\n
+16% YoY \u00b7 At-Bay 2025<\/p>\n
Scam centre losses<\/p>\n
~$40bn\/yr<\/p>\n
UNODC est \u00b7 INTERPOL<\/p>\n
Social engineering claims<\/p>\n
+233%<\/p>\n
YoY \u00b7 Aon<\/a> APAC 2025<\/p>\n Deepfake forum activity<\/p>\n +600%<\/p>\n Feb\u2013Jun 2024 \u00b7 INTERPOL<\/p>\n Sources: INTERPOL Asia and South Pacific Cyber Threat Assessment 2025\/2026; Willis Cyber Claims in Focus 2026; DUAL<\/a> Global Cyber Outlook April 2026; At-Bay 2025 Cyber Claims Report; Aon APAC Cyber Risk Report 2025; UNODC TOC Convergence Report 2024. Axis positions are indicative indices.<\/p>\n The deepfake incidents are already here<\/p>\n In February 2024, a Hong Kong employee transferred $25 million after deepfakes impersonated executives on a video call. In March 2025, a Singapore finance director nearly lost over $499,000 in a near-identical attack. INTERPOL frames these as representative of a pattern, not anomalies.\u00a0Nearly 29% of New Zealanders have been targeted by deepfake scams in the past year, according to Mastercard-commissioned research<\/a>. The events INTERPOL documents in Hong Kong and Singapore are the corporate-scale version of an attack pattern that is already well-established in the New Zealand consumer market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Data analysis Asia-Pacific cyber threats: volume vs insurance severity Each bubble is one of the top five cybercrime…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49902,17053,114491,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-482094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-cyber-threats","tag-insurance","tag-interpol","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482094","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=482094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}