Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi on Friday reported a record drop in fourth-quarter revenue as the company weathered a slowdown in consumption and disruptions due to China’s COVID-19 curbs. Early signs suggest China’s economy will only rebound slowly, as consumers remain cautious about spending money despite an easing of restrictions on domestic and international travel. Xiaomi
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Mar 24, 2023Ravie LakshmananDevSecOps / Software Security A malicious Python package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository has been found to use Unicode as a trick to evade detection and deploy an info-stealing malware. The package in question, named onyxproxy, was uploaded to PyPI on March 15, 2023, and comes with capabilities to harvest
Asus ROG Phone 7 launch date has been confirmed by the company. The handset will debut globally next month, unlike its predecessor that arrived in July last year. While the company hasn’t shared any details on the handset that is coming to global markets, it recently appeared on benchmarking website Geekbench hinting at its key
Mar 23, 2023Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Banking An emerging Android banking trojan dubbed Nexus has already been adopted by several threat actors to target 450 financial applications and conduct fraud. “Nexus appears to be in its early stages of development,” Italian cybersecurity firm Cleafy said in a report published this week. “Nexus provides all the
OnePlus Nord CE 3 Lite was recently spotted on IMDA and Geekbench certification websites, hinting at the imminent launch of the device. Now, the company has announced that the smartphone will be making its debut in India on April 4, alongside OnePlus Nord Buds 2. The landing page of the upcoming launch is already live on the
Mar 23, 2023Ravie LakshmananBrowser Security / Artificial Intelligence Google has stepped in to remove a bogus Chrome browser extension from the official Web Store that masqueraded as OpenAI’s ChatGPT service to harvest Facebook session cookies and hijack the accounts. The “ChatGPT For Google” extension, a trojanized version of a legitimate open source browser add-on, attracted
Redmi Note 12 Turbo is set to launch on March 28 in China. The upcoming addition to the company’s Note 12 series of smartphones will feature the new Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 SoC, which was announced by Qualcomm last week. Xiaomi has also been teasing some key specifications of the upcoming Redmi Note 12 Turbo.
Mar 22, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat Intelligence The North Korean advanced persistent threat (APT) actor dubbed ScarCruft is using weaponized Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (CHM) files to download additional malware. According to multiple reports from AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (ASEC), SEKOIA.IO, and Zscaler, the development is illustrative of the group’s continuous efforts to refine and
Switching to a brand-new smartphone is exciting and tedious at the same time as users have to transfer all the digital data and content from the old device to the new one. AirDrop lets to share photos, documents, and videos, among other things quickly between Apple devices, but it is less convenient with Android handsets. Today, Xiaomi,
Mar 22, 2023Ravie LakshmananICS/SCADA Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released eight Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on Tuesday, warning of critical flaws affecting equipment from Delta Electronics and Rockwell Automation. This includes 13 security vulnerabilities in Delta Electronics’ InfraSuite Device Master, a real-time device monitoring software. All versions prior to
Redmi Note 12 Turbo launch date has been officially confirmed. Xiaomi will launch its new Redmi Note 12 5G (Review) series phone on March 28 in China. Performance-wise, the Redmi Note 12 Turbo is expected to slot above the Redmi Note 12 Pro Plus 5G (Review) in China. Ahead of the official launch, Xiaomi has
Mar 22, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Crime / Hacking In a sudden turn of events, Baphomet, the current administrator of BreachForums, said in an update on March 21, 2023, that the hacking forum has been officially taken down but emphasized that “it’s not the end.” “You are allowed to hate me, and disagree with my decision but
Realme has confirmed to launch Realme GT Neo 5 SE with 100W fast charging support soon in China. It is said to be the first mid-range phone to come with 100W fast charging. While there’s no exact launch date available yet, the Chinese manufacturer is tipped to unveil the phone this month in China. The
Mar 21, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber War / Cyber Threat Amid the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, government, agriculture, and transportation organizations located in Donetsk, Lugansk, and Crimea have been attacked as part of an active campaign that drops a previously unseen, modular framework dubbed CommonMagic. “Although the initial vector of compromise is unclear, the details
Xiaomi Buds 3 TWS earbuds, launched in December 2021, have now received a revamp. The Chinese tech giant has release new Xiaomi Buds 3 Star Wars-themed TWS earbuds, jumping on the wagon of tech companies that are collaborating with Hollywood studios to release themed devices. A series of movies, comics, and games set in a
Mar 20, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat / Malware A banking trojan dubbed Mispadu has been linked to multiple spam campaigns targeting countries like Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Portugal with the goal of stealing credentials and delivering other payloads. The activity, which commenced in August 2022, is currently ongoing, Ocelot Team from Latin American cybersecurity firm
Huawei Mate X3 will reportedly be released soon with next-generation satellite connectivity, allowing users to send and receive short messages via direct satellite network. The reports also claim that this smartphone will support the sending of voice messages, which is a significant enhancement compared to prior applications of the feature. The Mate X3 model, expected
Mar 20, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat / Malware A new piece of malware dubbed dotRunpeX is being used to distribute numerous known malware families such as Agent Tesla, Ave Maria, BitRAT, FormBook, LokiBot, NetWire, Raccoon Stealer, RedLine Stealer, Remcos, Rhadamanthys, and Vidar. “DotRunpeX is a new injector written in .NET using the Process Hollowing technique and
Qualcomm recently launched the Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 chipset – its most powerful Snapdragon 7-series chip to date. The Qualcomm AI Engine boosts its performance making the processor speedier and more efficient than its predecessors. Redmi and Realme have now confirmed the use of this new Snapdragon 7+ Gen 2 chipset in their upcoming smartphones.
Mar 17, 2023Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Botnet A new Golang-based botnet dubbed HinataBot has been observed to leverage known flaws to compromise routers and servers and use them to stage distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. “The malware binaries appear to have been named by the malware author after a character from the popular anime series, Naruto, with