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FireEye and Microsoft on Thursday said they discovered three more malware strains in connection with the SolarWinds supply-chain attack, including a “sophisticated second-stage backdoor,” as the investigation into the sprawling espionage campaign continues to yield fresh clues about the threat actor’s tactics and techniques. Dubbed GoldMax (aka SUNSHUTTLE), GoldFinder, and Sibot, the new set of

Qualcomm Snapdragon 775 series of SoCs may be in the works as their alleged specifications have surfaced online. Expected to be based on 5nm architecture, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 775 and Snapdragon 775G may provide better performance than the Snapdragon 765 and Snapdragon 765G SoCs. The leak also hints at support for LPDDR5 RAM and UFS

In what’s a case of hackers getting hacked, a prominent underground online criminal forum by the name of Maza has been compromised by unknown attackers, making it the fourth forum to have been breached since the start of the year. The intrusion is said to have occurred on March 3, with information about the forum

Amazfit T-Rex Pro smartwatch has been reportedly leaked in a hands-on video on YouTube. Amazfit T-Rex Pro will be a successor to the Amazfit T-Rex that was launched in India in June last year. The hands-on video shows key specifications for the Amazfit T-Rex Pro and it seems to come with four buttons, two on

As cloud computing continues to grow, Google Cloud is quickly becoming one of the most popular solutions. However, relatively few engineers know this platform well. This leaves the door open for aspiring IT professionals who take the official exams. The Google Cloud Certifications Practice Tests + Courses Bundle helps you get certified faster, with 43

Realme 8 Pro has been reportedly spotted in a US FCC listing, hinting at some specifications. Realme 8 Pro and the vanilla Realme 8 will be successors to the Realme 7 series that launched in September last year. The two phones were recently teased by the company’s India and Europe CEO Madhav Sheth and are

Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday disclosed two distinct design and implementation flaws in Apple’s crowdsourced Bluetooth location tracking system that can lead to a location correlation attack and unauthorized access to the location history of the past seven days, thereby by deanonymizing users. The findings are a consequence of an exhaustive review undertaken by the Open

Samsung Galaxy A72 and Samsung Galaxy A52 5G have leaked on many occasions in the past. The two handsets have now been spotted on the official company support page, hinting at an imminent launch in the future. Samsung Galaxy A72 is reported to be powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G SoC and is expected to

Enterprise cloud security firm Qualys has become the latest victim to join a long list of entities to have suffered a data breach after zero-day vulnerabilities in its Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) server were exploited to steal sensitive business documents. As proof of access to the data, the cybercriminals behind the recent hacks targeting

Samsung Galaxy XCover 5 rugged smartphone has been launched in the European market as a successor to the Galaxy XCover 4. Samsung launched the Galaxy XCover 5 four years after the Galaxy XCover 4 and the phone comes with a lot of improvements and upgrades. The Galaxy XCover 5 is sleek and easy-to-hold but does

Signaling a major shift to its ads-driven business model, Google on Wednesday unequivocally stated it would not build alternate identifiers or tools to track users across multiple websites once it begins phasing out third-party tracking cookies from its Chrome browser by early 2022. “Instead, our web products will be powered by privacy-preserving APIs which prevent

Redmi K40 series smartphones sold 300,000 units within the first five minutes of going on sale in China, the Xiaomi sub-brand announced on Weibo. It also said that the series will go on next sale on March 8. The Redmi K40 series includes Redmi K40, Redmi K40 Pro, and Redmi K40 Pro+ smartphones. The smartphones

The attack surface is virtually expanding before our eyes. Protecting assets across multiple locations, with multiple solutions from different vendors, has become a daily concern for CISOs globally. In a new e-book recently published (download here), CISOs with small security teams talk about the drivers for replacing their EDR/NGAV solutions with an Autonomous XDR solution

Redmi Note 10, Redmi Note 10 Pro, and the Redmi Note 10 Pro Max were launched in India on Thursday. As the successor to the Redmi Note 9 series that Xiaomi introduced last year, the Redmi Note 10 series features a Super AMOLED display. The Redmi Note 10 being the most affordable option in the

Cybercriminals are now deploying remote access Trojans (RATs) under the guise of seemingly innocuous images hosted on infected websites, once again highlighting how threat actors quickly change tactics when their attack methods are discovered and exposed publicly. New research released by Cisco Talos reveals a new malware campaign targeting organizations in South Asia that utilize

Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite is reportedly receiving its Android 11 update, though for now it remains uncertain whether it’s part of One UI 3.0 or One UI 3.1. This is the tablet’s first major update since its launch last year with Android 10. For now, the tablet’s Android 11 update is only available in

Microsoft has released emergency patches to address four previously undisclosed security flaws in Exchange Server that it says are being actively exploited by a new Chinese state-sponsored threat actor with the goal of perpetrating data theft. Describing the attacks as “limited and targeted,” Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) said the adversary used these vulnerabilities to

Samsung Galaxy A32 was launched in India on Wednesday as the company’s latest Galaxy A-series model. The new Samsung phone comes with a 90Hz display and features quad rear cameras. The Samsung Galaxy A32 also includes Dolby Atmos support as well as offers a waterdrop-style display notch. Other key highlights of the Samsung Galaxy A32

SunCrypt, a ransomware strain that went on to infect several targets last year, may be an updated version of the QNAPCrypt ransomware, which targeted Linux-based file storage systems, according to new research. “While the two ransomware [families] are operated by distinct different threat actors on the dark web, there are strong technical connections in code