In 2025, nation-state activity accounted for 67% of threat activity in APAC.

North America was the most affected region by ransomware in March 2026, accounting for 55% of reported incidents, followed by Europe at 24% and APAC at 12%.

APAC's fraud attack rate increased to 1.7%.

APAC recorded the second highest average number of attacks worldwide, reporting 3,040 weekly attacks per organization, a 3% increase year over year,

APAC's Web DDoS attacks surged 485% year over year.

North America accounted for 40.7% of malicious bot transactions, followed by APAC (25%), EMEA (19.1%) and Central and Latin America (15.2%).

Cambodia recorded the highest ratio of approved applicants linked to fraud networks in APAC at 17%.

Fraud rates dropped in Europe by 14.6% and in North America by 5.5%, while increasing by 9.3% in Africa, 16.4% in APAC, and 19.8% in the Middle East.

1 in 4 respondents in APAC reported being targeted for money-mule recruitment.

44% of organizations in APAC say they are prepared for software supply chain attacks.

APAC's attack rate grew significantly by 37% through 2024. It now stands at 1.5% of all transactions in the region

In APAC, only 1% of threats are from internal actors, and North America, where internal threats account for just 5% of breaches.

The Asia-Pacific (APAC) region experienced the largest share of security incidents in 2024 at 34%.

APAC had the highest global phishing encounter rates, followed by EMEA and North America.

63% of APAC organisations exceeded their cloud storage budget in 2024. This is slightly worse than the global average of 62%.

Networking fees, data management fees, data access and retrieval requests, and egress fees are among the costliest for APAC respondents.

50% of Asia Pacific organisations experience IT or business delays due to egress and data access fees.

49% of end-user cloud storage spending in APAC goes to fees for storage and networking, rather than actual storage used.

66% of organisations in Japan say they recover data from public cloud for backup and recovery purposes, at least monthly. This is lower than the APAC average of 80%

Almost one in six APAC organisations report negative business impacts from cold storage performance delays.