ASEAN ministers meet in Philippines to tackle cybercrime, scam hubs

MANILA: Southeast Asia’s interior and security ministers met in Manila on Tuesday to jointly address cybercrime, human trafficking and online scams, a growing concern in the region. Over the past few years, Southeast Asia has been increasingly targeted as a hub for transnational organized crime and industrial-scale scam centers, which are defrauding victims globally with the use of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, and have been trafficking people from dozens of countries