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Details have emerged about what’s the first Rust-language-based ransomware strain spotted in the wild that has already amassed “some victims from different countries” since its launch last month. The ransomware, dubbed BlackCat, was disclosed by MalwareHunterTeam. “Victims can pay with Bitcoin or Monero,” the researchers said in a series of tweets detailing the file-encrypting malware.
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At least 300,000 IP addresses associated with MikroTik devices have been found vulnerable to multiple remotely exploitable security vulnerabilities that have since been patched by the popular supplier of routers and wireless ISP devices. The most affected devices are located in China, Brazil, Russia, Italy, Indonesia, with the U.S. coming in at number eight, cybersecurity
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Android 12L is now available in beta on compatible Pixel devices, allowing users to try out the upcoming update which is designed to benefit users with large displays. The Android 12L update is designed for tablets, foldable phones, and other devices which support Android apps with big screens like Chromebooks. Google had previously announced in
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 benchmark results are out and the SoC performs better than its predecessor, Qualcomm Snapdragon 888, as per a report. Additionally, the benchmarking results show that it has beaten Samsung Exynos 2100 but is still behind Apple’s A15 Bionic silicon on CPU performance. The benchmarks were conducted on Geekbench 5, PCMark
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Google on Tuesday said it took steps to disrupt the operations of a sophisticated “multi-component” botnet called Glupteba that approximately infected more than one million Windows computers across the globe and stored its command-and-control server addresses on Bitcoin’s blockchain as a resilience mechanism. As part of the efforts, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) said it
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Vivo Y55s 5G was launched in China on Wednesday, marking the newest 5G-equipped addition to the company’s Y-series portfolio. As predicted by previous leaks, the Vivo Y55s is equipped with a MediaTek Dimensity 700 SoC and is powered by a 6,000mAh battery. The smartphone has 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. The VivoY55s comes
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Nobelium, the threat actor attributed to the massive SolarWinds supply chain compromise, has been once again linked to a series of attacks targeting multiple cloud solution providers, services, and reseller companies, as the hacking group continues to refine and retool its tactics at an alarming pace in response to public disclosures. The intrusions, which are
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Thought AI, an adaptive artificial intelligence systems development company, has contributed 1 million of its THT cryptocurrency coins to the recently launched Howard Bloom Institute, an international think tank led by Howard Bloom,  the man dubbed by Britain’s Channel 4 TV as the “next in a lineage of seminal thinkers that includes Newton, Darwin, Einstein,
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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in a third-party driver software developed by Eltima that have been “unwittingly inherited” by cloud desktop solutions like Amazon Workspaces, Accops, and NoMachine and could provide attackers a path to perform an array of malicious activities. “These vulnerabilities allow attackers to escalate privileges enabling them to disable security products,
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Xiaomi 12, Xiaomi 12X, and Xiaomi 12 Pro have bagged China’s TENAA certification. Xiaomi 12 Pro has also been spotted on China’s CCC (3C) certification website. The TENAA listing suggests that Xiaomi’s upcoming flagship series smartphones could have two models with the latest Snapdragon 8 chipsets while one will get the Snapdragon 870 SoC. The
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Users looking to activate Windows without using a digital license or a product key are being targeted by tainted installers to deploy malware designed to plunder credentials and other information in cryptocurrency wallets. The malware, dubbed “CryptBot,” is an information stealer capable of obtaining credentials for browsers, cryptocurrency wallets, browser cookies, credit cards, and capturing
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