Data analysis
Asia-Pacific cyber threats: volume vs insurance severity
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.
High vol / High severity High severity / Lower vol Moderate severity / High vol Emerging / Accelerating
Ransomware avg claim
$508,000
+16% YoY · At-Bay 2025
Scam centre losses
~$40bn/yr
UNODC est · INTERPOL
Deepfake forum activity
+600%
Feb–Jun 2024 · INTERPOL
Sources: INTERPOL Asia and South Pacific Cyber Threat Assessment 2025/2026; Willis Cyber Claims in Focus 2026; DUAL 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.
The deepfake problem has become a claims problem
INTERPOL’s report documents what it describes as an immediate operational reality, not a future concern: AI-generated deepfakes are already being used at scale to perpetrate financial fraud across the region. In February 2024, an employee at a multinational firm in Hong Kong was tricked into transferring $25 million after deepfakes were used to impersonate executives in a video call. In March 2025, a finance director in Singapore nearly lost over $499,000 in an almost identical Zoom-based attack. These are not isolated incidents. The report characterises them as representative of a rapidly growing pattern in which AI personas, voice clones and synthetic video are used to bypass the human controls that technical security measures cannot reach.
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