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.

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

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.

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%

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

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

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

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

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