Given the rapid growth in the internet user rate in the dawning of the digital era and the roll out of the “Thailand 4.0” policy to transform current economy by fostering and embracing creativity, research, and development through digitalisation, it is inevitable that threats from the cyber world have the potential to increase.
Thailand ranks first in the ASEAN community for mobile banking users, second for ownership of cryptocurrency, and third in mobile commerce. We have a penetration rate of 133 percent across 55 million active mobile Internet users. Research into cybercrime in Thailand thus far shows it has caused 428.49 million baht in losses. As such, a total of 397.63 million baht in assets has been seized in the process of prosecuting cybercrime cases.
The use of social media platform to commit frauds, circulating…
