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A China-based advanced persistent threat (APT) group is possibly deploying short-lived ransomware families as a decoy to cover up the true operational and tactical objectives behind its campaigns. The activity cluster, attributed to a hacking group dubbed Bronze Starlight by Secureworks, involves the deployment of post-intrusion ransomware such as LockFile, Atom Silo, Rook, Night Sky,

Huawei Nova 10 series is all set to launch on July 4 in China. Huawei, via Weibo, has confirmed the arrival of the new Nova series smartphones in its home country. The upcoming lineup is expected to include Huawei Nova 10 and the Huawei Nova 10 Pro models and will succeed Huawei Nova 9 series

The beleaguered Israeli surveillanceware vendor NSO Group this week admitted to the European Union lawmakers that its Pegasus tool was used by at least five countries in the region. “We’re trying to do the right thing and that’s more than other companies working in the industry,” Chaim Gelfand, the company’s general counsel and chief compliance

Poco F4 5G debuted in India on Thursday as the brand’s latest model. The smartphone comes with features including a 120Hz AMOLED display and triple rear cameras. The Poco F4 5G also includes the Snapdragon 870 SoC, which is a flagship-grade chipset designed for mid-range phones. The smartphone carries support for Dolby Atmos and Dolby

A threat cluster with ties to a hacking group called Tropic Trooper has been spotted using a previously undocumented malware coded in Nim language to strike targets as part of a newly discovered campaign. The novel loader, dubbed Nimbda, is “bundled with a Chinese language greyware ‘SMS Bomber’ tool that is most likely illegally distributed

Samsung unveiled the 200-megapixel ISOCELL HP3 sensor on Thursday. The latest image sensor succeeds last year’s ISOCELL HP1 sensor and has 0.56-micron pixels (μm). It packs 200 million pixels in a 1/1.4 optical format. It is claimed to capture 8K videos at 30 frames-per-second (fps) with minimum loss in the field of view. The South

A new piece of research from academics at ETH Zurich has identified a number of critical security issues in the MEGA cloud storage service that could be leveraged to break the confidentiality and integrity of user data. In a paper titled “MEGA: Malleable Encryption Goes Awry,” the researchers point out how MEGA’s system does not

iQoo has brought its Neo series to India with the launch of the Neo 6 in the super-competitive sub-Rs. 30,000 price segment. In order to give the phone a fighting chance, iQoo has equipped it with powerful hardware such as the Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 SoC, and has bolstered its features by giving it 80W fast charging and

The operators behind the Rig Exploit Kit have swapped the Raccoon Stealer malware for the Dridex financial trojan as part of an ongoing campaign that commenced in January 2022. The switch in modus operandi, spotted by Romanian company Bitdefender, comes in the wake of Raccoon Stealer temporarily closing the project after one of its team

Samsung Galaxy F13 was launched in India on Wednesday. The new Samsung phone comes with features including triple rear cameras and 15W fast charging support. The smartphone also comes with up to 128GB of onboard storage. It is powered by an octa-core Exynos 850 SoC. Overall, the Samsung Galaxy F13 is quite similar to the

An advanced persistent threat (APT) actor codenamed ToddyCat has been linked to a string of attacks aimed at high-profile entities in Europe and Asia since at least December 2020. The relatively new adversarial collective is said to have commenced its operations by targeting Microsoft Exchange servers in Taiwan and Vietnam using an unknown exploit to

Nokia X21 5G and a new G-series smartphone alleged renders and some specifications have leaked online. The Nokia X21 5G smartphone is said to be powered by a Snapdragon 695 SoC and a 5,000mAh battery. It will reportedly feature a 64-megapixel primary lens and a 13-megapixel camera at the back with Zeiss optics and PureView

A new kind of Windows NTLM relay attack dubbed DFSCoerce has been uncovered that leverages the Distributed File System (DFS): Namespace Management Protocol (MS-DFSNM) to seize control of a domain. “Spooler service disabled, RPC filters installed to prevent PetitPotam and File Server VSS Agent Service not installed but you still want to relay [Domain Controller

Oppo Find X5 series including the vanilla Oppo Find X5, Find X5 Pro, and Find X5 Lite was unveiled in February this year. According to a new leak, the company is planning to launch a new variant in the Find X5 series in the second half of 2022. Oppo released the Find X3 Pro Photographer

Insurance exists to protect the insured party against catastrophe, but the insurer needs protection so that its policies are not abused – and that’s where the fine print comes in. However, in the case of ransomware insurance, the fine print is becoming contentious and arguably undermining the usefulness of ransomware insurance. In this article, we’ll

Redmi Note 10S price in India has been dropped by up to Rs. 2,000. The Redmi handset was initially launched in India in May last year in two storage variants, while the third variant made its way to the country in December 2021. The smartphone features a 6.43-inch AMOLED display with full-HD+ resolution and 1,100

The operators behind BRATA have once again added more capabilities to the Android mobile malware in an attempt to make their attacks against financial apps more stealthy. “In fact, the modus operandi now fits into an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) activity pattern,” Italian cybersecurity firm Cleafy said in a report last week. “This term is

Lava Blaze, a new handset from Lava, is reportedly making its way to the market soon. The launch date of the phone is yet to be officially confirmed by the domestic mobile company, but some renders along with pricing details and specifications of the handset have now surfaced online. The leaked renders show the smartphone

A recently patched critical security flaw in Atlassian Confluence Server and Data Center products is being actively weaponized in real-world attacks to drop cryptocurrency miners and ransomware payloads. In at least two of the Windows-related incidents observed by cybersecurity vendor Sophos, adversaries exploited the vulnerability to deliver Cerber ransomware and a crypto miner called z0miner

Oppo A57 (2022) was launched in May in Thailand. Now, the smartphone is reportedly going to debut in India on June 21. Along with the launch date, the smartphone’s price in India has also been tipped. The 4G handset is reportedly going to launch in the country via online stores, although it is said to