LEAP Commerce, the Award-Winning eCommerce Enabler and Brand Partner in Asia Pacific
Since 2016, LUXASIA has been on a journey of Digital Transformation. As part of this journey, LUXASIA has incubated and built one of the leading eCommerce enablers in the region. Its remarkable track record has been recognized by Forrester in its Q4-2020 research report and multiple awards won over the last few years. Today, LUXASIA announces the incorporation of LEAP Commerce, a fully-owned subsidiary that will continually shape the...
hoolah and Jumper.ai Announces First-of-its-Kind Partnership to Offer Buy Now Pay Later through Conversational Commerce to Merchants in Asia
hoolah, Asia’s leading omnichannel Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) ecosystem today announces a regional partnership with Jumper.ai, the world’s first end-to-end conversational commerce and shopper engagement platform, to offer merchants across Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong the opportunity to let their customers pay later in a way that is convenient, flexible and transparent through conversational commerce. This marks a first-of-its-kind...
As Financial Transactions Rise, Local Sector Advised To Improve Threat Intelligence
As local digital money transactions accelerated during the pandemic, the growth is a crucial period for the financial sector to integrate security and improve their threat intelligence capabilities, according to cybersecurity company Kaspersky. “For the large majority of cybercriminals, easy money is the prime motivator. And the financial sector is uniquely positioned to be a target of attacks regardless of season because it’s always...
Sophos Reports on Rampant Raccoon Stealer Campaign that Uses Telegram and Adds Cryptomining and Cryptocurrency Theft
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, has published new research, “Trash Panda as a Service: Raccoon Stealer Steals Cookies, Cryptocoins and More,” detailing how a stealer disguised as pirated software grabs cryptocurrencies and information while dropping malicious content, such as cryptominers, on targeted systems. “With much of daily and professional life now reliant on services delivered through a web browser,...
Timo, Vietnam’s Digital Banking Pioneer, Partners with Mambu to Expand Services
Timo, Vietnam’s first digital bank, has announced it is partnering with SaaS banking platform Mambu to leverage the benefits of a cloud native core banking platform to significantly scale its business. Timo, one of Vietnam’s most innovative banks, offers a unique, user-friendly ‘banking-on-the-go’ experience to customers, and was named both Fastest Growing Digital Bank and Most Innovative Digital Bank at the 2020 Global Economics...
Kaspersky: Servers In Malaysia Require Better Cyber Defense
The continuing pandemic situation in Malaysia did not go unnoticed for cybercriminals. With the majority of Malaysians still working, studying, and doing daily activities virtually from their homes, Kaspersky has monitored an increase in terms of online threats in the country. According to the fresh data from Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), the global cybersecurity company has detected 28,931,223 unique Internet-borne cyberthreats...
Kaspersky Ranked ‘Champion’ In The Canalys Global Leadership Matrix For The Second Consecutive Year
Kaspersky has achieved ‘Champion’ status, for the second consecutive year, in the 2021 Cybersecurity Leadership Matrix by Canalys, a renowned global technology market analyst firm with a distinct channel focus. The global cybersecurity company attained the coveted ranking with an increase of 12.7% in the overall partner rating. Kaspersky was the highest-rated vendor by partners across many categories, including pricing speed and...
Less DDOS Attacks And Small Geographic Shifts In Q2 2021
In the second quarter of 2021, the total number of DDoS attacks decreased by 38.8% compared to Q2 2020, and by 6.5% in comparison to the previous quarter in 2021. China became the leader in the number of devices from which SSH attacks were carried out. At the same time, China continued to lose ground in terms of the total number of DDoS attacks (10.2%). The USA remains the leader (36%) in this category for the second quarter in a row,...
Has The COVID-19 Pandemic Fuelled Malaysia’s Start-Up Ecosystem?
It goes without saying that the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted global businesses, from transportation and logistics to education and healthcare. Despite business disruptions, globally there was a surge of new ideas and young start-ups who adapted quickly to the pandemic and found themselves in the mainstream marketplace in a very short span of time. The United States, United Kingdom and Japan reported that new business registrations...
More Than Half Of Young Malaysian Muslims Would Adopt Islamic Banking If It Were More Accessible
More than half of young Muslim consumers would adopt Islamic banking if it were more accessible, according to a report from cloud banking platform Mambu. The ‘Faith and finance: The changing face of Islamic banking’ report, which surveyed 2,000 millennial and Gen Z Muslim consumers globally, illustrates the growing appeal of Islamic finance services around the world, with over half (53%) of respondents saying they would choose Islamic...
