A quarter of all cyber-attacks in the Asia-Pacific region are motivated by espionage according to figures released by Verizon Business.
This contrasts sharply with that of Europe and North America, at 6% and 4% respectively and shows data harvesting and scraping is a continued threat to businesses of all sizes.
The Verizon Business 17th-annual Data Breach Investigations Report analysed a record-high 30,458 security incidents and 10,626 confirmed breaches globally in 2023 – a two-fold increase over 2022.