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Moto G40 Fusion is set to go on sale in India today. The affordable Motorola phone was launched in the country alongside Moto G60 a couple of weeks back. It offers features such as a 120Hz display, triple rear cameras, and a 6,000mAh battery. Moto G40 Fusion is also powered by an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon

An “aggressive” financially motivated threat group tapped into a zero-day flaw in SonicWall VPN appliances prior to it being patched by the company to deploy a new strain of ransomware called FIVEHANDS. The group, tracked by cybersecurity firm Mandiant as UNC2447, took advantage of an “improper SQL command neutralization” flaw in the SSL-VPN SMA100 product

Samsung Galaxy M42 5G will go on sale in India for the first time starting 12am (midnight). Launched earlier this week, Samsung says that the handset is its first mid-segment and most affordable 5G smartphone. It is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G SoC and sports a quad rear camera setup that is highlighted by

Perhaps due to the nature of the position, the InfoSec leadership roles tend to be solitary ones. CISOs, or their equivalent decision-makers in organizations without the role, have so many constant drains on their attention – keeping their knowledge fresh, building plans to secure their organizations further – that they often find themselves on an

Google is imposing a few restrictions to improve app quality and discovery on Google Play. The app store is known to be filled with spam apps, apps that have the same name, and even apps that have emojis in their name. There are several clone apps of the popular ones, often confusing Android users as

The maintainers of Composer, a package manager for PHP, have shipped an update to address a critical vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary commands and “backdoor every PHP package,” resulting in a supply-chain attack. Tracked as CVE-2021-29472, the security issue was discovered and reported on April 22 by researchers from SonarSource,

The Mi 11X from Xiaomi is the most affordable of three new models in the Mi 11 family. It’s priced a bit lower than the Mi 10T but offers plenty of updated features, most notably its Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 SoC which is only one step below the current flagship level. Priced starting at Rs. 29,999,

Cybersecurity researchers on Wednesday disclosed a new bypass vulnerability (CVE-2021-23008) in the Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) security feature impacting F5 Big-IP application delivery services. “The KDC Spoofing vulnerability allows an attacker to bypass the Kerberos authentication to Big-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), bypass security policies and gain unfettered access to sensitive workloads,” Silverfort researchers

Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G (mmWave, Snapdragon 888-model) smartphone material cost is said to be 7 percent lower than the Galaxy S20 Ultra 5G, as per a report by research firm Counterpoint. The report analysed the bill of materials (BoM) data for the Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G 128GB model, and says that the cost of

Threat actors are increasingly adopting Excel 4.0 documents as an initial stage vector to distribute malware such as ZLoader and Quakbot, according to new research. The findings come from an analysis of 160,000 Excel 4.0 documents between November 2020 and March 2021, out of which more than 90% were classified as malicious or suspicious. “The

Samsung Galaxy S20 series is receiving the May 2021 Android security patch. The three phones in the lineup — Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20+, and Galaxy S20 Ultra — are also receiving improvement to camera performance and Quick Share feature. The update currently appears to be rolling out in Germany and there is no information when the

Attention, Android users! A banking malware capable of stealing sensitive information is “spreading rapidly” across Europe, with the U.S. likely to be the next target. According to a new analysis by Proofpoint, the threat actors behind FluBot (aka Cabassous) have branched out beyond Spain to target the U.K., Germany, Hungary, Italy, and Poland. The English-language

Samsung Galaxy F52 5G specifications have been reportedly tipped by a Google Play Console listing. The Samsung phone appeared on China’s TENAA certification website and in a listing on the Bluetooth SIG portal last week. The details said to be available via Google Play Console suggest that the Samsung Galaxy F52 5G will get a

The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) of the District of Columbia has become the latest high-profile government agency to fall victim to a ransomware attack. The Babuk Locker gang claimed in a post on the dark web that they had compromised the DC Police’s networks and stolen 250 GB of unencrypted files. Screenshots shared by the

Redmi K40 Gaming Edition has launched in China and is the latest entrant in the Redmi K40 series. The phone, as the name suggests, carries some dedicated gaming features such as retractable shoulder buttons, three mics, Dolby Atmos support and audio tuned by JBL, among others. The design of the Redmi K40 Gaming Edition is

New research has uncovered privacy weaknesses in Apple’s wireless file-sharing protocol that could result in the exposure of a user’s contact information such as email addresses and phone numbers. “As an attacker, it is possible to learn the phone numbers and email addresses of AirDrop users – even as a complete stranger,” said a team

Telegram is releasing a major update that will bring a ton of new features to the messaging app. The update includes features like ‘Payments 2.0′, scheduled voice chats and mini profiles for voice chats, two new Telegram Web apps, update to Android UI, and improvements to the photos and video viewer within the app. Telegram

Researchers from the University of Minnesota apologized to the maintainers of Linux Kernel Project on Saturday for intentionally including vulnerabilities in the project’s code, which led to the school being banned from contributing to the open-source project in the future. “While our goal was to improve the security of Linux, we now understand that it

Moto G20 has been launched in Europe. The smartphone is powered by a Unisoc T700 SoC that is paired with 4GB of RAM and Mali G52 GPU. Moto G20 has up to 128GB of onboard storage that can be expanded up to 1TB using a microSD card. It has a quad rear camera setup, headlined

Adversaries are increasingly abusing Telegram as a “command-and-control” system to distribute malware into organizations that could then be used to capture sensitive information from targeted systems. “Even when Telegram is not installed or being used, the system allows hackers to send malicious commands and operations remotely via the instant messaging app,” said researchers from cybersecurity