INTERPOL’s Asia and South Pacific Cyber Threat Assessment for 2025/2026 records that more than half of surveyed countries reported cybercrime now accounting for around 30% of all crime recorded nationally, attributing the rise to rapid digitalisation, new technologies and increasingly organised criminal networks.
This Is A Different Kind Of Statistic From The Rest Of The Corpus
Almost every figure in this database comes from a vendor, a survey panel or a leak site, and this desk spends most of its time discounting them.
National crime statistics compiled by police services and aggregated through an intergovernmental body are a different instrument. They are not complete — under-reporting is severe, as 25-0509 establishes — but they are produced by parties with no product to sell, using categories that have to survive being used for other purposes.
Thirty Per Cent Is A Statement About Policing, Not Just Crime
If a third of recorded offences are cyber-enabled, the operational implications for a police service are considerable: investigative capability, evidence handling, cross-border cooperation and prosecution capacity all have to shift proportionally.
The enforcement files in this corpus — 25-1222, 25-0724, 25-1014 — describe specialist units producing occasional significant results. At 30% of recorded crime, this stops being a specialist function and becomes ordinary policing, resourced from the same budget as everything else.
And The Corpus Records Almost None Of It
Nothing in this database corresponds to that volume. The crimes in question are overwhelmingly fraud and scams against individuals, of the kind filed at 25-1122 — no corporate defendant, no notification, no leak-site listing, nothing to disclose.
The single largest category of cybercrime by count is one this corpus is structurally incapable of covering, and this file is the clearest evidence of it we have found.
Compiled from INTERPOL’s published assessment and associated reporting, listed below. National recording practices differ between countries and the 30% figure is a reported share of recorded crime, not of crime occurring. Corrections: corrections@forensicpost.com.