Cybersecurity
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APAC Firms Struggle to Govern Collaboration Tools Ahead of AI Agents
Two-thirds of organisations across Asia Pacific say their employees regularly use collaboration tools that have not been approved or vetted by IT teams — and 72 per cent believe these platforms are actively introducing new security risks, according to Mimecast‘s… Continue reading
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Password Stealer Attacks on SEA Businesses Up 18% in 2025
Password stealer attacks targeting businesses in Southeast Asia surged 18 per cent year-on-year in 2025, with Kaspersky‘s business solutions detecting and blocking more than one million such attacks across the region’s corporate networks — up from approximately 901,000 in 2024,… Continue reading
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Messi Beats Ronaldo in Breached Password Data, Research Finds
With the 2026 FIFA World Cup weeks away, new research from Specops, an Outpost24 company, has found that Lionel Messi outranks Cristiano Ronaldo in real-world breached password datasets — by around 26 per cent, with 1.22 million occurrences versus 923,000… Continue reading
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Akamai Pays US$205M to Secure AI Use in Enterprise Browsers
Akamai Technologies has announced its intent to acquire LayerX, a provider of browser-based AI usage control and enterprise browser security technology, for US$205 million. The deal is expected to close by Q3 2026, with LayerX’s co-founders and employees joining Akamai’s… Continue reading
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Singapore’s HTX Partners Adobe to Combat Deepfakes
Singapore’s Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX) and Adobe have announced a two-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to advance content authenticity technologies that can detect manipulated media and strengthen image and document verification. The agreement was announced on 18… Continue reading
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Cohesity and HPE Deepen Cyber Resilience Alliance Across Hybrid Cloud
Cohesity and HPE have expanded their seven-year strategic alliance to deliver a more integrated portfolio covering cyber resilience, data protection, and hybrid cloud operations — with new resale agreements and deeper product integrations taking effect immediately across authorised partners in… Continue reading
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North Korean Hackers Stole $2 Billion in Digital Assets Last Year
CrowdStrike‘s 2026 Financial Services Threat Landscape Report has found that North Korean state-linked adversaries stole US$2.02 billion in digital assets in 2025, a 51% year-on-year increase, as the threat actor group weaponised artificial intelligence to industrialise financial cybercrime at scale.… Continue reading
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AI Agents Are Widening Singapore’s Identity Attack Surface, Semperis Warns
Artificial intelligence is rapidly multiplying non-human identities across enterprise systems in Singapore, creating an identity attack surface that organisations are struggling to secure, according to a new global study by Semperis. The State of Identity Security in the AI Era… Continue reading
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Meta Launches Truly Private AI Chat on WhatsApp With Incognito Mode
WhatsApp is rolling out Incognito Chat with Meta AI, a new mode that allows users to interact with the company’s AI assistant in conversations that are invisible to everyone — including Meta itself. The feature is built on Meta’s Private… Continue reading
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Palo Alto Networks Launches Idira to Govern Human, Machine and AI Identities
Palo Alto Networks has launched Idira, a next-generation identity security platform covering human, machine, and agentic identities. The launch establishes Identity as the third core pillar of its platform strategy alongside Network and Cloud. Machine identities now outnumber human identities… Continue reading
