By Yeo Siang Tiong, General Manager for Southeast Asia at Kaspersky Among the obvious effects of this pandemic is the rapid rise of online payment services and digital banking across Southeast Asia (SEA). Due to various social distancing restrictions, people from across the region now opt to avoid the brick-and-mortar...
Five thousand TrueMoney locations across the Philippines to provide Western Union Money Transfer Services MANILA, Philippines– Western Union, a leader in cross-border, cross-currency money movement and payments, today announced a collaboration with TrueMoney, a leading financial services provider in the Philippines, enabling customers in the Philippines to receive money from their...
Online security tops the charts as the most important factor for millennials looking to find their “Digital Comfort Zones” at home, despite the fact that over a third of them (37%) think they’re boring to be the victim of cybercrime, a new study by Kaspersky shows. Kaspersky’s latest global report,...
Manila, 29 July 2020 – AirAsia, at the core of its being, operates to ensure “Now Everyone Can Fly”. For many years, AirAsia has successfully helped guests achieve their travel and lifestyle aspirations. This, however, has been disrupted by the global pandemic that has affected the aviation and tourism industries....
SEPANG, 28 July 2020 – Getting great customer service with AirAsia is about to become easier than ever before as the company’s virtual Allstar, AVA, has launched on popular messaging application, WhatsApp. Chief Customer Happiness Officer Adam Geneave said the move couldn’t be more timely with record numbers of guests...
Sitel joins fellow call centers in the Philippines to support the Call Center Association of the Philippines’ (CCAP) fundraising project in partnership with Caritas Manila. The joint fundraiser brought together business process outsourcing (BPO) firms to raise funds to help alleviate the situation of less fortunate families in Manila battling...
Incident analysis by Kaspersky of two cases in Europe and Asia has uncovered that VHD ransomware – first discussed in public in spring 2020 – is owned and operated by Lazarus, a prominent North-Korean APT group. The move by Lazarus, to create and distribute ransomware, signifies a change of strategy...
Allianz PNB Life is seeking to help address the protection gap in the Philippines by partnering with reach52, an award-winning social enterprise that has made healthcare more accessible to rural communities. “The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has made all of us vulnerable to critical illness and financial instability. Through...
Phishing remains the ultimate entry used by sophisticated cybercriminals, says Kaspersky Amidst the increased use of online banking and e-wallet in the region fuelled by the pandemic, Kaspersky reminds banks and financial services in Southeast Asia (SEA) to learn from the lessons of previous cyberattacks like the costly $81M cyberheist...
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...
MANILA, 20 July 2020 – AirAsia Philippines (Z2) marked its longest flight to date over the weekend on a mission to repatriate 125 Filipino sea crew from India. The 14-hour flight, which flew from Gujarat, India to Manila, was coordinated by five local manning agencies whose seamen had been stranded...
AirAsia Philippines noted a positive improvement in its performance as commercial flights gradually resumed in June. Since the easing of travel restrictions, seats sold for the month of June increased by 30% compared to the previous month. AirAsia Philippines’ June performance contributed to AirAsia Group’s recent record-breaking 41,000 seats sold...
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