Feb 10, 2023Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Ransomware State-backed hackers from North Korea are conducting ransomware attacks against healthcare and critical infrastructure facilities to fund illicit activities, U.S. and South Korean cybersecurity and intelligence agencies warned in a joint advisory. The attacks, which demand cryptocurrency ransoms in exchange for recovering access to encrypted files, are designed
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The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain the plea of Google LLC seeking modification of its January 19 order and said the company can raise its grievances during hearing of its appeal before the NCLAT. A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala said at
Suspected Russian threat actors have been targeting Eastern European users in the crypto industry with fake job opportunities as bait to install information-stealing malware on compromised hosts. The attackers “use several highly obfuscated and under-development custom loaders in order to infect those involved in the cryptocurrency industry with Enigma stealer,” Trend Micro researchers Aliakbar Zahravi
Oppo Find N2 Flip’s global launch event is set to take place on February 15, as announced by the company. However, it appears that the Oppo Find 2 will not be making its way to the global market. Both these foldable smartphones have been launched in China. The Oppo Find N2 Flip sports a clamshell
Feb 11, 2023Ravie LakshmananRansomware / Endpoint Security After the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a decryptor for affected victims to recover from ESXiArgs ransomware attacks, the threat actors have bounced back with an updated version that encrypts more data. The emergence of the new variant was reported by a system administrator on
Infinix Zero 5G 2023 series was launched in India on February 4. Starting today (February 11), Infinix has commenced the official sale of the latest entry-level smartphone series which includes the vanilla Infinix Zero 5G 2023, and Infinix Zero 5G 2023 Turbo Edition. The sale is currently live exclusively on Flipkart. Both 5G smartphones from
Feb 11, 2023Ravie LakshmananThreat Response / Vulnerability The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added three flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active abuse in the wild. Included among the three is CVE-2022-24990, a bug affecting TerraMaster network-attached storage (TNAS) devices that could lead to unauthenticated remote
Redmi 12C could be launched in global markets soon. Conflicting reports regarding the branding of this upcoming handset have surfaced online. The handset was previously tipped to launch globally as the Poco C55, while a recent report suggests that the Redmi 12C will debut in India in this month. Now, a new Xiaomi handset has
Feb 10, 2023Ravie LakshmananSupply Chain / Software Security Four different rogue packages in the Python Package Index (PyPI) have been found to carry out a number of malicious actions, including dropping malware, deleting the netstat utility, and manipulating the SSH authorized_keys file. The packages in question are aptx, bingchilling2, httops, and tkint3rs, all of which
Nokia G22, an upcoming smartphone from the Nokia G-series, has recently appeared on benchmarking website Geekbench, hinting at some of its key specifications. As per the listing, the smartphone could run on Stock Android based on Android 12 out-of-the-box. The Nokia G22 has been spotted to come with an octa-core 1.8GHz Unisoc T606 SoC. It
Feb 10, 2023Ravie LakshmananData Breach / Source Code Popular social news aggregation platform Reddit has disclosed that it was the victim of a security incident that enabled unidentified threat actors to gain unauthorized access to internal documents, code, and some unspecified business systems. The company blamed it on a “sophisticated and highly-targeted phishing attack” that
Samsung Galaxy S23 series, including the base Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23+, and Galaxy S23 Ultra, has been launched globally. These Samsung flagship smartphones are set to go on sale in India on February 17. The South Korean tech giant has now unveiled a limited edition variant of the Galaxy S23 Ultra in collaboration with BMW
Feb 09, 2023Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / IoT Security A set of 38 security vulnerabilities has been uncovered in wireless industrial internet of things (IIoT) devices from four different vendors that could pose a significant attack surface for threat actors looking to exploit operational technology (OT) environments. “Threat actors can exploit vulnerabilities in Wireless IIoT devices
Lava Blaze 5G, which debuted in November 2022, has officially been confirmed to launch in a new RAM variant. The homegrown company is bringing a 6GB RAM variant of the smartphone, while the existing model has 4GB RAM, which can be expanded virtually by 3GB. The smartphone is powered by a 7nm MediaTek Dimensity 700
Feb 08, 2023Ravie LakshmananVulnerability Management Multiple unpatched security flaws have been disclosed in open source and freemium Document Management System (DMS) offerings from four vendors LogicalDOC, Mayan, ONLYOFFICE, and OpenKM. Cybersecurity firm Rapid7 said the eight vulnerabilities offer a mechanism through which “an attacker can convince a human operator to save a malicious document on
Vivo Y100 5G India launch has been confirmed by the company and the launch of its upcoming Y-series smartphone in India has already been teased on its website. The company has confirmed the design of the new Vivo mid-range smartphone. Ahead of the official launch, the marketing material of the Vivo Y100 5G has leaked
Feb 08, 2023Ravie LakshmananEncryption / IoT Security The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced that a family of authenticated encryption and hashing algorithms known as Ascon will be standardized for lightweight cryptography applications. “The chosen algorithms are designed to protect information created and transmitted by the Internet of Things (IoT), including
iPhone 14 Pro — Apple’s flagship smartphone launched in 2022 — is reportedly faster in both single core and multi core performance than the recently launched Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, recent benchmarks of both phones have revealed. The Galaxy S23 Ultra is one of the most premium smartphones that is equipped with a custom version
Feb 08, 2023Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Cyber War The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has issued an alert warning of cyber attacks against state authorities in the country that deploy a legitimate remote access software named Remcos. The mass phishing campaign has been attributed to a threat actor it tracks as UAC-0050, with
Xiaomi 13 Pro is powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. Xiaomi 13 Pro India launch date has been set for February 26, the company announced on Wednesday. The Chinese smartphone manufacturer’s flagship handset that has already made its debut in China. It will be the fourth smartphone to debut with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset