Infinix Note 12i (2022) India launch date has been set for January 25, according to the company. The launch was announced via a Flipkart microsite, which also reveals certain specifications of the phone. It is expected to be powered by a MediaTek Helio G85 SoC and sports a 6.7-inch Full HD+ AMOLED display with a
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Jan 20, 2023Ravie LakshmananData Protection / Privacy The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) on Thursday imposed fresh fines of €5.5 million against Meta’s WhatsApp for violating data protection laws when processing users’ personal information. At the heart of the ruling is an update to the messaging platform’s Terms of Service that was imposed in the
Oppo Reno 8T design and colour options have been revealed by the company, ahead of its upcoming launch. The company has now set up a landing page teasing the arrival upcoming smartphone along with some of its specifications. The Oppo Reno 8T was previously spotted on various certification sites which hinted at an imminent release.
Jan 20, 2023Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Mobile Hacking Threat actors associated with the Roaming Mantis attack campaign have been observed delivering an updated variant of their patent mobile malware known as Wroba to infiltrate Wi-Fi routers and undertake Domain Name System (DNS) hijacking. Kaspersky, which carried out an analysis of the malicious artifact, said the
iQoo Neo 7 5G India launch is set to take place in India next month, and the company has revealed the design of the iQoo Neo 7 Indian variant and the colour options that it will be available in, along with certain specifications. Based on the details shared by the company, the phone looks like
Jan 20, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber War / Cyber Attack The Russian state-sponsored cyber espionage group known as Gamaredon has continued its digital onslaught against Ukraine, with recent attacks leveraging the popular messaging app Telegram to strike military and law enforcement sectors in the country. “The Gamaredon group’s network infrastructure relies on multi-stage Telegram accounts for victim
Samsung Galaxy A14 5G and Samsung Galaxy A23 5G were unveiled in India earlier this week. The handsets went on sale in the country for the first time earlier today. The latest 5G offerings from Samsung are equipped with 6.6-inch displays, pack 5,000 mAh batteries, and feature a 50-megapixel primary camera. The Galaxy A14 5G
Jan 19, 2023Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Android The threat actor behind the BlackRock and ERMAC Android banking trojans has unleashed yet another malware for rent called Hook that introduces new capabilities to access files stored in the devices and create a remote interactive session. ThreatFabric, in a report shared with The Hacker News, characterized Hook
U.S. authorities said on Wednesday they have arrested the majority shareholder and Co-Founder of Hong Kong-registered virtual currency exchange Bitzlato Ltd for allegedly processing $700 million (roughly Rs. 5,700 crore) in illicit funds. Anatoly Legkodymov, a Russian national living in China, was arrested in Miami on Tuesday on charges that he operated the exchange as
Jan 19, 2023Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Data Security A new critical remote code execution (RCE) flaw discovered impacting multiple services related to Microsoft Azure could be exploited by a malicious actor to completely take control of a targeted application. “The vulnerability is achieved through CSRF (cross-site request forgery) on the ubiquitous SCM service Kudu,” Ermetic
Oppo will reportedly expand its Reno 8 series with a new smartphone Oppo Reno 8T. The phone is speculated to be launching soon in India. While the handset has been a subject of multiple leaks and rumours for some time now, a tipster has shared a detailed spec sheet for the Oppo Reno 8T, revealing
Jan 18, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat / Malware An ongoing campaign dubbed Earth Bogle is leveraging geopolitical-themed lures to deliver the NjRAT remote access trojan to victims across the Middle East and North Africa. “The threat actor uses public cloud storage services such as files[.]fm and failiem[.]lv to host malware, while compromised web servers distribute NjRAT,”
WhatsApp has reportedly begun rolling out a new feature for select Android beta testers that allows them to exchange voice notes as status updates. The feature lets you share voice status updates “with a certain audience configured within your privacy settings,” according to a feature tracker. The new feature is available within the text status
Jan 18, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Cyber Risk The threat actor known as BackdoorDiplomacy has been linked to a new wave of attacks targeting Iranian government entities between July and late December 2022. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, which is tracking the activity under its constellation-themed moniker Playful Taurus, said it observed the government domains
iQoo 11 5G is the first flagship Android smartphone of 2023 to arrive in India. The phone is a successor to the iQoo 9T, which launched last year. Positioned as the world’s fastest Android smartphone, the iQoo 11 5G features Qualcomm’s flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. The phone also packs premium hardware such as a
Jan 17, 2023Ravie LakshmananThreat Response / Malware New research has found that it is possible for threat actors to abuse a legitimate feature in GitHub Codespaces to deliver malware to victim systems. GitHub Codespaces is a cloud-based configurable development environment that allows users to debug, maintain, and commit changes to a given codebase from a
While the budget smartphone segment today offers phones with a decent mix of good software and hardware features, those seeking better camera performance or want added features will often find themselves looking for smartphones in the mid-range segment. The phones in our sub-Rs. 25,000 price bracket are roughly where the mid-range segment begins and some of them offer impressive performance,
Jan 17, 2023Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Bug Report Four different Microsoft Azure services have been found vulnerable to server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks that could be exploited to gain unauthorized access to cloud resources. The security issues, which were discovered by Orca between October 8, 2022 and December 2, 2022 in Azure API Management, Azure
Nokia T21 was launched by the company on Tuesday. The latest offering from the company has arrived as a successor to the Nokia T20 that was launched in India last year. The tablet is equipped with a 10.36-inch 2K display with an SGS low blue light certification. The device packs an 8,200mAh battery with 18W
Jan 16, 2023The Hacker NewsIdentity Management / MFA When considering authentication providers, many organizations consider the ease of configuration, ubiquity of usage, and technical stability. Organizations cannot always be judged on those metrics alone. There is an increasing need to evaluate company ownership, policies and the stability, or instability, that it brings. How Leadership Change