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Tech giant Google on Friday submitted before the NCLAT that there was “unfair imposition” by the competition watchdog CCI over its mobile app distribution agreement with device makers as it does not restrict from installing other apps, including that of rivals. A two-member NCLAT bench headed by Chairperson Justice Ashok Bhushan on Friday said it

Feb 17, 2023Ravie LakshmananIoT Security / Cyber Attack A new variant of the notorious Mirai botnet has been found leveraging several security vulnerabilities to propagate itself to Linux and IoT devices. Observed during the second half of 2022, the new version has been dubbed V3G4 by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, which identified three different

Samsung Galaxy S23 series, which comprises the vanilla model, the Galaxy S23+, and Galaxy S23 Ultra, will go on sale today. The latest flagship smartphones from Samsung feature Dynamic AMOLED 2X displays and are powered by a custom version of Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. The Galaxy S23 series is the first to feature

Feb 16, 2023Ravie LakshmananSupply Chain / Software Security A popular npm package with more than 3.5 million weekly downloads has been found vulnerable to an account takeover attack. “The package can be taken over by recovering an expired domain name for one of its maintainers and resetting the password,” software supply chain security company Illustria

Google, in an attempt to unify its design language, may bring some updates soon to the standard Android keyboard. Reportedly Google has begun redesigning the appearance of Gboard while giving consumers more customisation options, as noticed in beta version 12.6.06.491625702. Previously, to customise the buttons that showed up in Gboard’s quick access toolbar, users had

Feb 15, 2023The Hacker NewsCybersecurity Webinar Bad actors love to deliver threats in files. Persistent and persuasive messages convince unsuspecting victims to accept and open files from unknown sources, executing the first step in a cyber attack. This continues to happen whether the file is an EXE or a Microsoft Excel document. Far too often,

Vivo Y56 5G is now available for purchase via offline stores in the country, says major retailer Mahesh Telecom. The new Y-series smartphone has also appeared on Vivo’s official India website revealing its specifications. The list confirms two colour options for the mid-range handset. The Vivo Y56 5G is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 700 SoC,

Feb 15, 2023Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Malware The North Korea-linked threat actor tracked as APT37 has been linked to a piece of new malware dubbed M2RAT in attacks targeting its southern counterpart, suggesting continued evolution of the group’s features and tactics. APT37, also tracked under the monikers Reaper, RedEyes, Ricochet Chollima, and ScarCruft, is linked

The Nothing Phone 1 is set to receive the much-awaited and long overdue Android 13 update. In a gradual roll out, Nothing Phone 1 devices will reportedly begin to get the next software update by the end of this week. Carl Pie, the co-founder of OnePlus, founded the independent consumer tech startup called Nothing around

Feb 15, 2023The Hacker NewsSecOps / DevOps In an ideal world, security and development teams would be working together in perfect harmony. But we live in a world of competing priorities, where DevOps and security departments often butt heads with each other. Agility and security are often at odds with each other— if a new

Vivo Y100 5G is scheduled to debut in India on Thursday. The company has revealed the design of this mid-range smartphone. However, its specifications and pricing in India are still under wraps. A reliable tipster has now leaked the complete specifications along with the design and colour options of the Vivo Y100 5G. It is

Feb 14, 2023Ravie LakshmananAd Fraud / Online Security The threat actors behind the black hat redirect malware campaign have scaled up their campaign to use more than 70 bogus domains mimicking URL shorteners and infected over 10,800 websites. “The main objective is still ad fraud by artificially increasing traffic to pages which contain the AdSense

Lava Agni 5G debuted in India back in 2021 as the first 5G phone by domestic smartphone maker Lava International. Now, the Lava Agni 2 5G is said to be in the pipeline as a purported successor. Ahead of any official confirmation, the key specifications and launch timeline of the device have surfaced online. The

Feb 14, 2023Ravie Lakshmanan Web infrastructure company Cloudflare on Monday disclosed that it thwarted a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at over 71 million requests per second (RPS). “The majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50-70 million requests per second (RPS) with the largest exceeding 71 million,” the company said, calling

Samsung’s recently launched Galaxy S23 series, especially the Galaxy S23 Ultra, seem to have a lot of unannounced tricks up its sleeves. Among the fewer hardware upgrades announced for the Galaxy S23 and the Galaxy S23 Plus models this year, are some interesting software features including the phone’s ability to lift objects from photos. The

Feb 13, 2023Ravie LakshmananGame Hacking / Cyber Threat An unknown threat actor created malicious game modes for the Dota 2 multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game that could have been exploited to establish backdoor access to players’ systems. The modes exploited a high-severity flaw in the V8 JavaScript engine tracked as CVE-2021-38003 (CVSS score:

Samsung’s One UI 5.1 software update was unveiled earlier this month during the first Galaxy Unpacked event of the year that saw the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S23 series. The update doesn’t bring major UI changes compared to the One UI 5.0 update. However, it includes the Expert RAW feature, which enables users to

Feb 13, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat Intelligence The advanced persistent threat (APT) actor known as Tonto Team carried out an unsuccessful attack on cybersecurity company Group-IB in June 2022. The Singapore-headquartered firm said that it detected and blocked malicious phishing emails originating from the group targeting its employees. It’s also the second attack aimed at Group-IB,

Xiaomi 13 Lite could soon make its debut in global markets. There have been rumours suggesting that this handset could be a rebranded version of the Xiaomi Civi 2 that was launched in China last year. A reliable tipster has shared a video of the Xiaomi 13 Lite being unboxed, ahead of its expected launch.