“Hello, It’s Me”: Fakecalls’ Trojan Imitates Phone Conversations With Bank Employees
The banking Trojan dubbed Fakecalls masquerades as a banking app and mimics the telephone customer support of the most popular South Korean banks. Unlike regular banking Trojans, it can discreetly intercept calls to real banks using their own connection. Under the guise of bank employees, the cybercriminals try to coax payment data or other confidential information out of the victim. Kaspersky researchers uncovered the Fakecalls’...
Attackers Infiltrate a Single Server for Five Months, Using it to Browse Online for Tools to Help Them With Further Parts of the Attack, Sophos Finds
Sophos has released findings on how attackers breached and spent five months inside a regional government server in the U.S., using it to browse online for a mix of hacker and IT administration tools that could help them carry out the attack. The attackers also installed a cryptominer before exfiltrating data and deploying Lockbit ransomware. The findings are detailed in a new article, “Attackers Linger on Government Agency Computers...
Intel Appoints Alexis Crowell as Asia Territory Leader
Intel Corporation has appointed Alexis Crowell as Managing Director for the Asia Territory, which includes Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. Alexis is also a Vice President in Intel’s Sales, Marketing and Communications Group. Based in Singapore, Crowell will look to build on Intel’s strong foundation in the region, by helping customers in their digital transformation journey and amongst other initiatives, pushing for deeper...
The Hidden Capabilities Of VPN Services – Five Unexpected Scenarios
A VPN is a versatile tool that many see as an assistant to protect personal data while carrying out everyday tasks online. However, in addition to well-known standard task such as surfing the internet, there are several other uses for a VPN. VPNs hide the location of users and change their IP address to the country where the server is placed. Sites are then under the impression that the user is physically located in the selected...
Epson Wins Red Dot Design Awards: Product Design 2022
Epson has won Red Dot Awards in the product design category at the internationally acclaimed Red Dot Awards for the sixth consecutive year. SD-10 Spectrophotometer The SD-10 is a highly accurate, compact, and affordable spectrophotometer equipped with a MEMS Fabry-Perot tunable filter developed by Epson. You can use it to digitise colour matching, a conventionally time-consuming part of printing done manually, and link it with a...
JurisTech and Mambu Partner to Drive Innovation in Malaysia’s Digital Banking Ecosystem
Innovative Malaysian fintech JurisTech has today announced a partnership with Mambu, the market leading cloud-native core banking platform, with the partnership formed to propel the growth of the digital banking ecosystem in Malaysia. This new collaboration will act as a catalyst for further expansion of the industry, with the result being greater support for both unbanked and underserved markets in Malaysia, and a boost to overall...
Board Level Executives Assume They’ll Never Be Attacked, Despite Rising Ransomware Incidents, Sophos Survey Reveals
Sophos, a global leader in next-generation cybersecurity, has announced the findings of the third edition of its survey report, The Future of Cybersecurity in Asia Pacific and Japan, in collaboration with Tech Research Asia (TRA). The study reveals a lack of boardroom awareness of cybersecurity, and a broad assumption from executives that their company will never get attacked, despite rising ransomware incidences, impact and cost....
Kaspersky: Nearly 3 In 4 In SEA Encountered At Least One Cyberthreat Against Digital Payment Methods
A recent Kaspersky research showed a positive correlation between the adoption of digital payment methods and the awareness of the risks and threats that are associated with them in Southeast Asia (SEA). Titled “Mapping a secure path for the future of digital payments in APAC”, the study discovered that nearly all respondents in SEA (97%) were aware of at least one type of threat against e-payment platforms, while almost three in four...
Research Reveals Gen Z’s Priorities As Enterprise, Environment And Equality
TEAM LEWIS Foundation has released further research from its global survey conducted with HeForShe, UN Women’s solidarity movement engaging men and boys in support of gender equality and empowerment of women. The global study revealed that Gen Z prioritises gender equality alongside enterprise and environmental issues more than any other age group. The study revealed that gender equality is seen as the 4th most pressing societal issue...
Qualtrics Selected by Pos Malaysia for New Customer Experience Program
Qualtrics has announced that Pos Malaysia Berhad has selected Qualtrics CustomerXM™ and Kantar to guide and accelerate its ongoing digital transformation aimed at improving the way customers connect with the company and enhancing operational efficiencies. As organizations across Malaysia race to respond to evolving consumer needs in the country – driven by the pandemic, rise of the digital economy, and new payment technologies...
