Q3 2016 Cybercrime Report APAC DeepDive
By ThreatMetrix
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APAC continues to be an exciting region of huge growth, evolution and change; increasing its vulnerability to organized, global cyber attacks. This is particularly true given APAC has a particularly strong cross-border footprint, with a high proportion of digital transactions criss-crossing country boundaries. Cross-border transactions are considered riskier by most organizations, driven by the fact that they are far more likely to be automated bot attacks than domestic transactions, and attract higher instances of location spoofing, as fraudsters attempt to hide behind VPNs and proxies to mask their true location.