Game on! Pinoy gamers can win exciting rewards from Aura and The Red Village partnership

01 February 2024 – Manila, Philippines – Filipino gamers are offered fun and unique opportunities to earn passively as Singapore-based Web3 gaming platform Aura has partnered with the viral play-to-earn (P2E) game The Red Village. (more…)

APAC scam-paign: Number of scam resources per brand soars by 211% in 2022 – Digital Risk Trends

Headline scam and phishing data from Digital Risk Trends

Singapore, July 12 2023 — Group-IB, a global cybersecurity leader headquartered in Singapore, has today published Digital Risk Trends, a comprehensive analysis of the world’s two most common cyber threats: scams and phishing. The average number of scam resources created per brand, defined as the number of instances in which a brand’s image and logo was appropriated for use in scam campaigns, across all regions and industries more than doubled year-on-year in 2022, up 162%. In the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, the rise was even more significant, with this number soaring by 211% compared to 2021. Additionally, the number of phishing websites detected by Group-IB’s Digital Risk Protection in 2022 was more than three times higher than in 2021. These findings build upon the 2022 Global State of Scams Report, published by the Global Anti Scam Alliance and ScamAdviser in collaboration with Group-IB, which revealed that scams caused over $55 billion in damages. The so-called scamdemic shows no signs of slowing down. (more…)

AWS Summit ASEAN 2023

AWS Summit ASEAN 2023

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McLaren Racing launches 7-page comic NFTs on Tezos ahead of Singapore and Japanese Grands Prix

  • McLaren Racing is set to drop a 7-page comic NFT from 1st to 7th October 2022, starting at the Singapore Grand Prix 2022 and ending at the Japanese Grand Prix 2022.
  • The NFTs are minted on the energy-efficient Tezos blockchain, an Official Technical Partner of McLaren Racing. Fans can purchase the NFTs on McLaren’s Racing Collective website for USD 9.99 per page.
  • The purchase of NFTs go beyond just the ownership of the comic art— fans stand to gain access and rights to attend virtual calls with McLaren, win McLaren merchandise, and receive invitations to McLaren management calls.

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Silverlake Axis enters strategic partnership with Finastra to offer best-In-Class Trade Finance Solutions

Silverlake Axis Group Managing Director Andrew Tan
  • Dubbed Silverlake Vision Trade Finance, the unified trade finance platform allows Silverlake Axis to streamline and automate domestic and international working capital finance, including documentary trade and undertakings, financing and trade loans, and supply chain finance.
  • The latest strategic partnership with Finastra enables Silverlake Axis to offer best-in-class trade finance solutions to customers in ASEAN
  • Silverlake Axis already works with over 40 percent of the top 20 largest banks in ASEAN, enabling their seamless digital transformation and powering novel core banking solutions

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Mimecast opens office in Singapore to continue expansion in Southeast Asia

The Philippines, 7 April 2022 – Email security and cyber resilience company Mimecast Limited (NASDAQ: MIME), has today announced it is continuing its expansion in the Asia Pacific (APAC) by establishing an office in Singapore as a regional hub for focus on South-East Asia. The company has appointed Stanley Hsu as its Regional Vice President, to help improve the cybersecurity posture of organizations and supply chains, in this expansion in the APAC region. For Mimecast, South-East Asia is a focused strategic growth market. Organizations in this region are experiencing a rapid digital transformation, and as cybercrime becomes a growing concern for governments and businesses alike, cybersecurity needs to be a core component in their transformation journeys.

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