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Australia has the highest uptake of payment service Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) of any country, with 24% of Australian consumers utilising the service, compared with just 11% globally, according to a new report.

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of China’s Alibaba Group has announced plans to expand its footprint by setting up data centres in South Korea and Thailand in 2022.

Researchers have published details of what they claim is a Chinese-speaking nation-state actor which has been targeting a number of south-east Asian countries for more than a year, using vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange as an entry point. The campaign has been given the name GhostEmperor.

Mobile company vivo and mobile phone operator company Advanced Info Service (AIS) have conducted 5G standalone network tests by using a V21 5G smartphone in urban areas of Bangkok, Thailand.

Melbourne beat Sydney to be Australia’s fastest city for 5G delivery across all frequency bands, according to a new ‘real-world’ measurement which sees that leading cities globally have a significantly better 5G experience than national scores.

The Asia-Pacific market, including Japan, saw very little movement of the traditional PC market in 2020, the technology analyst firm IDC says, adding that there was only a 0.3% increase year-on-year to take the total units shipped to 103.8 million.

Thailand’s mobile services revenue declined in 2020 due to the adverse impact of the COVID-19 crisis on mobile subscription growth and mobile service average revenue per user (ARPU) levels during the year, according to one global analyst.

Russian security firm Kaspersky has completed moving its ANZ data storage and processing infrastructure to Switzerland, a process it announced in 2018 following a campaign by the US to blackball the firm.

The Chinese realme smartphone brand has recorded 132% growth quarter-on-quarter in the third quarter, to become the fastest to reach 50 million shipments, the technology analyst firm Counterpoint Research says, quoting figures from its Market Monitor service.

A research team which includes a scientist from Flinders University has devised a means of analysing very small amounts of DNA to identify the origins of old ivory, a development that could be used to thwart international ivory poachers.

The Meinhardt Group, an engineering consultancy with 51 offices worldwide and 5000 employees, appears to have been attacked by a group using the REvil ransomware last month.

Mobile financial services to help customers transact instantly are seeing greater demand and rollout amongst Australian financial institutions during the pandemic, although the institutions are slow to adopt next-gen digital offerings such as fraud alerts (21%) and voice-activated fund transfers (15%), according to a new report.

Cyber criminals, who used the Windows Nefilim ransomware to attack the appliance maker Fisher & Paykel earlier this year, have released a third tranche of documents, stolen from the company during the incident, on the dark web.

Chinese smartphone manufacturer realme has become the fastest growing smartphone brand in south-east Asia, gaining a position among the top five in a number of key countries, the technology analyst firm Counterpoint Research says.

Malicious attackers have used the Maze Windows ransomware to attack the Thai Beverage Public Company and advertised the fact on the dark web.

Japan's NEC has been selected by the Asia Direct Cable Consortium to construct the 9,400-kilometre long Asia Pacific submarine cable which is expected to be completed by the fourth quarter of 2022.

Supportive government framework and policies are expected to enable the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region to emerge as the global epicentre for the growth of artificial intelligence (AI), according to one global analytics firm.

Western Australian headquartered blockchain cryptocurrency and energy trading platform Power Ledger has signed a deal to establish a digital energy trading business in Thailand, in partnership with Thai Digital Energy Development (TDED).

Digital asset provider Zipmex has launched a mobile app to facilitate cryptocurrency trading. The company joined Blockchain Australia recently and is in the process of getting its certification from the association.

As many as three in five businesses in the Asia Pacific region have put off digitalisation plans out of fear of cyberattacks, according to a new report which says that the growing speed and scope of digital transformation, along with the increasing number of targetable devices, are creating a “perfect storm” for cyberattacks.