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,
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Feb 15, 2023Ravie 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, 2023The 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, 2023Ravie 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, 2023Ravie 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, 2023Ravie 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, 2023Ravie 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.
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
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