ASEAN Closing Ranks as Cyberscam Threat Escalates Southeast Asia's governments have finally acknowledged their collective failure to combat cybercrime.
Once thriving economies in the region are now hemorrhaging billions due to a growing scourge of online scams that exploit vulnerabilities and wreak havoc on local economies.
For too long, ASEAN nations treated online scams as a law enforcement issue, leaving it to police and anti trafficking agencies to deal with.