The AI investment Malaysia was briefed on at the weekend is worth RM204 billion, and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim named where it would go: Kuching in Sarawak and Peninsular Malaysia. The sectors are artificial intelligence, new technology and data centres. He called it one of the largest investments...
SCALE Action Plan 2027: Kuskop’s Five Shifts For Malaysian SMEs
The Ministry of Entrepreneur and Cooperatives Development has put a name and five letters on what it plans to do to Malaysian small business after Budget 2027. The SCALE Action Plan, announced at the SAMENTA SME CEO Forum 2026, is a 2027 work programme rather than a spending announcement, and...
Zero Trust Malaysia: What MACC’s 90,000 Daily Attacks Should Change At Your SME
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission detects and foils between 80,000 and 90,000 cyberattack attempts every day. That figure, given by the commission's own records and information management director, is the most useful number an SME will see this month, and not because a small company faces anything like that volume. It...
Investment Marketing China: Malaysian Firms Sit Outside The Permitted Class
Investment marketing China is now closed to a Malaysian company that promotes investment products, trading accounts or wealth content to a Chinese audience, and the position is unusual: under China's new rules it is not merely unlicensed, it is outside the class of entities allowed to do the marketing at...
MediAsas Malaysia: RM200 Per Worker Off An SME’s First-Year Premium
MediAsas is the government's new basic medical plan, launching in January 2027, and it carries the first direct subsidy an SME has been offered for staff medical cover: for companies with fewer than 75 employees, the government pays RM200 of the first-year premium per worker, capped at 50 workers per...
WhatsApp Scam Malaysia: RM327,000 Lost In Two Transfers
A company in Kuching lost RM327,000 in two bank transfers after an employee received a WhatsApp message from someone claiming to be the company director. Kuching district police chief ACP Alexson Naga Chabu confirmed the case on 15 October 2026, and two independent Malaysian outlets reported it within 24 hours:...
CTOS Down: Score And CCRIS Reports Still Unavailable For SMEs
CTOS down is not a rumour and it is not temporary in the way most outages are. CTOS Digital Bhd disclosed a cybersecurity incident on 23 September 2026, and in a Bursa Malaysia filing on 13 October 2026 it said CTOS Score and CCRIS-related reports remain unavailable, that Bank Negara...
SME Export Malaysia: Three MoUs to Help Businesses Sell Overseas
Malaysian SMEs were handed a concrete export route this week. SME export Malaysia support moved forward on 15 October 2026 when the Entrepreneur Development and Cooperatives Ministry signed memoranda of understanding with Lazada Malaysia, the Entrepreneurship Development Company of Uzbekistan and the Construction Industry Development Board, at the Enterprise 50...
Ledger Malaysia: Spy Implant Found as CryptoBilis Halts Wallet Sales
Ledger Malaysia owners have one instruction this week, and it comes from Ledger itself: if you bought your hardware wallet from the reseller CryptoBilis and have not set it up yet, do not set it up. If you have already set it up, move your crypto to a new wallet...
Maxis DNS Down? Why .my Websites Won’t Load — the Root KSK Rollover
If .my websites will not load on a Malaysian connection, there are two possible causes, and only one has anything to do with your network. At 14:00 UTC on 11 October 2026, the key that signs the DNS root zone changed. It is the root KSK rollover, only the second...