Dable Partners with Nanyang Siang Pau to Provide Personalized Content Recommendation
8 July 2020 – Dable, Asia’s No.1 content discovery platform has formed a partnership with Nanyang Siang Pau, one of the oldest and most circulated Malaysian Chinese-language media. Dable is a technology-based startup in South Korea that uses big data and personalization technologies to recommend personalized content by analyzing media content consumed by visitors in real-time. Dable has partnered with over 2,300 media...
Cybercriminals Send Ransomware to Users of Out-of-date Web Browser in APAC
8 July 2020 – Outdated or illegitimate software is like open doors for malicious users. The recent discovery by Kaspersky proves this once again. The global cybersecurity company today unveils a sustained campaign targeting users of Internet Explorer in the Asia Pacific region. According to the fresh data from Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), an exploit kit dubbed as “Magnitude EK” has been actively evolving and trying to...
Malaysia’s Mfmi Group Selects Mambu To Launch Its New Digital Islamic Financial Services In The Cloud
6 June 2020 – MFMi Group, part of leading Malaysian fintech specialist MFM Synergy, has announced it has chosen Mambu’s pure SaaS cloud-native banking platform to underpin its new digital Islamic financial services. Starting with a digital Sharia Compliant Factoring product, ‘MFM Tawreeq’, the company is also building an Islamic digital wallet and has a strategic plan to launch a suite of complementary Islamic financial services...
Research interest: Trojans, Backdoors, and Droppers top the list of most-searched malware by security analysts
3 July 2020 – Anonymized statistics from free requests to the Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal have revealed that almost three quarters (72%) of the analyzed malicious files fell into three categories: Trojans, Backdoors, and Droppers. The statistics also show that the types of malware that researchers most frequently investigate do not coincide with the most widespread ones. Malicious activity detection is only the starting...
BNM to hold a Webinar on R&R loans for SMEs and Individuals
3 July 2020 – Bank Negara Malaysia (“BNM”) will organise a webinar today from 11am until 12pm about Restructured and Rescheduled (“R&R”) loans. During the webinar, the speakers will advise the audience on how R&R will be able to assist SMEs and also the public. The moratorium program announcement by BNM in March 2020 allows loan borrowers to defer their load payment for 6 months. If you still...
Bank Negara Malaysia Welcomes Financial Institutions to Adopt Electronic Know-Your-Customer
2 July 2020 – Bank Negara Malaysia has released a policy document on Electronic Know-Your-Customer (e-KYC). The policy document aims to accelerate and streamline practices of industry players in their adoption of e-KYC technology, the online process of identifying and verifying individual customers. The policy comes into effect starting from 30 June 2020 onward. The digitalisation of identification and verification...
