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Oppo F21 Pro has started receiving a new OTA software update that brings Android 13-based ColorOS 13 to the handset. The beta version of this update was introduced to the Oppo F21 Pro earlier this year in September and now the stable version of the same is available. The update is currently available for users

The Android banking fraud malware known as SharkBot has reared its head once again on the official Google Play Store, posing as file managers to bypass the app marketplace’s restrictions. A majority of the users who downloaded the rogue apps are located in the U.K. and Italy, Romanian cybersecurity company Bitdefender said in an analysis

iQoo 11 series is set to launch in China and Malaysia on December 2. The smartphone brand has now revealed the design of this upcoming lineup, which is expected to include the vanilla iQoo 11, iQoo 11 Pro, and iQoo 11 Legend. The showcased iQoo 11 series model appears to include a triple rear camera

As many as 34 Russian-speaking gangs distributing information-stealing malware under the stealer-as-a-service model stole no fewer than 50 million passwords in the first seven months of 2022. “The underground market value of stolen logs and compromised card details is estimated around $5.8 million,” Singapore-headquartered Group-IB said in a report shared with The Hacker News. Aside

Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides have been optimised for tablets and foldable phones, the search giant has announced, as part of several changes to its workspace applications for documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. The company previously announced it would update more than 20 Google applications to run better on tablets during Google I/O earlier

Microsoft on Tuesday disclosed the intrusion activity aimed at Indian power grid entities earlier this year likely involved the exploitation of security flaws in a now-discontinued web server called Boa. The tech behemoth’s cybersecurity division said the vulnerable component poses a “supply chain risk that may affect millions of organizations and devices.” The findings build

iQoo 11 5G launch date has reportedly been set for December 2. The upcoming smartphone from the Vivo sub-brand will launch in Malaysia with Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC. iQoo is speculated to unveil the iQoo 11, iQoo 11 Pro, and iQoo 11 Legend smartphones under the iQoo 11 lineup. Past leaks have

A malicious extension for Chromium-based web browsers has been observed to be distributed via a long-standing Windows information stealer called ViperSoftX. Czech-based cybersecurity company dubbed the rogue browser add-on VenomSoftX owing to its standalone features that enable it to access website visits, steal credentials and clipboard data, and even swap cryptocurrency addresses via an adversary-in-the-middle

Vivo X90, Vivo X90 Pro, and Vivo X90 Pro+ were launched in China on Tuesday (November 22), through a livestream event that was hosted on the company’s website and social media channels. The new flagship series brings a list of upgrades over last year’s Vivo X80 models. They feature Zeiss-branded cameras and the company’s V2

The Luna Moth campaign has extorted hundreds of thousands of dollars from several victims in the legal and retail sectors. The attacks are notable for employing a technique called callback phishing or telephone-oriented attack delivery (TOAD), wherein the victims are social engineered into making a phone call through phishing emails containing invoices and subscription-themed lures.

Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 FE, the purported successor to the Samsung Galaxy Tab S7 FE, could be equipped with an LCD screen and offer stylus support, according to details shared by a tipster. A tablet with the model number SM-X506B was spotted on Geekbench back in September, hinting at a new Tab 8 ‘Fan Edition’

The cybercrime group called Daixin Team has leaked sample data belonging to AirAsia, a Malaysian low-cost airline, on its data leak portal. The development comes a little over a week after the company fell victim to a ransomware attack on November 11 and 12, per DataBreaches.net. The threat actors allegedly claim to have obtained the

Oppo Find X6 series is reportedly in the works and the upcoming lineup is expected to include two models — the Oppo Find X6 and Find X6 Pro. The company is yet to announce the exact launch date of the next Find X series, but the camera details of the Find X6 Pro have already

Google has won a lawsuit filed against two Russian nationals in connection with the operation of a botnet called Glupteba, the company said last week. The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York imposed monetary sanctions against the defendants and their U.S.-based legal counsel. The defendants have also been asked to pay

Sony Xperia 10 V is believed to be in the works and may soon launch as a successor to the Sony Xperia 10 IV. The company has not officially revealed any details surrounding this smartphone. However, the supposed key specifications of this Sony smartphone have surfaced on the Chinese microblogging site Weibo. The Sony Xperia

Australian software company Atlassian has rolled out security updates to address two critical flaws affecting Bitbucket Server, Data Center, and Crowd products. The issues, tracked as CVE-2022-43781 and CVE-2022-43782, are both rated 9 out of 10 on the CVSS vulnerability scoring system. CVE-2022-43781, which Atlassian said was introduced in version 7.0.0 of Bitbucket Server and

Samsung Electronics has expanded its partnership with Google to bring a new chipset for its upcoming flagship smartphones, according to details shared by a tipster. In the coming years, Samsung Galaxy phones and tablets could get more powerful. The South Korean technology giant has been making Google’s Tensor chips that power its Pixel smartphones, and

A notorious advanced persistent threat actor known as Mustang Panda has been linked to a spate of spear-phishing attacks targeting government, education, and research sectors across the world. The primary targets of the intrusions from May to October 2022 included counties in the Asia Pacific region such as Myanmar, Australia, the Philippines, Japan, and Taiwan,

Vivo X90 specifications are officially out and the smartphone will come with support for 120W fast charging among other features. The upcoming handset from Vivo will come in two different display options from which the users can choose, including the BOE Q9 and the Samsung E6 panel. The smartphone will launch in China on November

The Indian government on Friday released a draft version of the much-awaited data protection regulation, making it the fourth such effort since it was first proposed in July 2018. The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022, as it’s called, aims to secure personal data, while also seeking users’ consent in what the draft claims is