Intelligence Insights, APAC - January 2025

What’s Inside the APAC January 2025 Report?

This edition delivers key insights into significant cybersecurity trends and incidents affecting APAC, and actionable strategies for stronger defenses against emerging cyber risks.

Global Trends

Lynx Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) group

Deep dive into the inner workings of this rapidly evolving and highly profitable group, including their sophisticated affiliate panel, cross-platform arsenal and advanced encryption for pervasive and sophisticated ransomware attacks.

Expat Real Estate Scam in the Middle East

Read about how our analysts uncovered an ongoing multi-million dollar real estate scam targeting expatriates working in or relocating to the Middle East, with evidence pointing to Syrian origins.

APAC Regional Trends

KamiKakaBot Targeting Vietnamese Financial Organisations

Our specialists discovered during investigations how KamiKakBot attacked financial organisations in Vietnam by bypassing traditional DLL sideloading and deployed malicious LNK files.

Social Engineering In Action

Discover how fraudsters in APAC and ANZ are adapting a social engineering scheme from the Middle East to impersonate government officials, and employing remote access software to exploit prior consumer complaints and steal credit card credentials.

ShadowSilk Target Government Networks

Learn how our researchers unveil how ShadowSilk started conducting successful and extensive attacks against government organisations in the CIS and APAC regions since 2023.