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Samsung was the first major OEM to bring foldable smartphones to the market. The South Korean brand that has released five iterations of the Galaxy Z Fold flagships, currently dominates the foldable market. A new media report says Samsung is shifting its focus to unveil foldables with affordable price tags starting next year. Meanwhile, Huawei

Nov 10, 2023NewsroomCyber Attack / Cyber Threat A group with links to Iran targeted transportation, logistics, and technology sectors in the Middle East, including Israel, in October 2023 amid a surge in Iranian cyber activity since the onset of the Israel-Hamas war. The attacks have been attributed by CrowdStrike to a threat actor it tracks

Infinix Smart 8 was launched in Nigeria on Thursday, November 9. This model succeeds the Infinix Smart 7, which was unveiled in February this year with a Unisoc SC9863A1 SoC and a 6,000mAh battery. Ahead of its launch, the Smart 7 was spotted on several certification sites that suggested several key specifications. Now, the smartphone

Nov 10, 2023NewsroomCyber Attack / Threat Intelligence Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a stealthy backdoor named Effluence that’s deployed following the successful exploitation of a recently disclosed security flaw in Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server. “The malware acts as a persistent backdoor and is not remediated by applying patches to Confluence,” Aon’s Stroz Friedberg Incident

Amazon currently runs Fire OS, an Android fork, on its Fire TVs and tablets. Fire OS devices support most Android apps as the operating system is based on Android Open Source Project. The e-commerce juggernaut, however, could be planning to move away from Google’s OS. According to a new report, Amazon plans to replace the

Nov 11, 2023NewsroomThreat Intelligence / Cybercrime A sub-cluster within the infamous Lazarus Group has established new infrastructure that impersonates skills assessment portals as part of its social engineering campaigns. Microsoft attributed the activity to a threat actor it calls Sapphire Sleet, describing it as a “shift in the persistent actor’s tactics.” Sapphire Sleet, also called

Honor X50i+ has been launched in China. The phone joins the Honor X50i lineup. which was launched earlier this year in April. The Honor X50i was powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 6020 SoC and packed a 4,500mAh battery with 35W wired fast charging support. The newly-launched Honor X50i+ comes with similar battery and charging specifications

Nov 10, 2023The Hacker NewsThreat Intelligence / SecOps There is a seemingly never-ending quest to find the right security tools that offer the right capabilities for your organization. SOC teams tend to spend about a third of their day on events that don’t pose any threat to their organization, and this has accelerated the adoption

Samsung Galaxy Fit 3 has been speculated to appear in the market for long. Initial rumours about its 2022 launch came and went away quickly. With the new leaked design renders, however, the launch of the Galaxy Fit 3 appears to be imminent. Although the company has not officially teased or confirmed the smart wearable,

Nov 10, 2023NewsroomCyber Warfare / Network Security The notorious Russian hackers known as Sandworm targeted an electrical substation in Ukraine last year, causing a brief power outage in October 2022. The findings come from Google’s Mandiant, which described the hack as a “multi-event cyber attack” leveraging a novel technique for impacting industrial control systems (ICS).

Oppo and Honor are gearing up to launch new flagship smartphones soon. The Chinese tech brands are reportedly working on the new Oppo Reno 11 series and Honor 100 series as successors to the Oppo Reno 10 series and Honor 90 lineups, respectively. There’s still no word from the companies on an official release date

Nov 09, 2023NewsroomVulnerability / Zero Day The threat actor known as Lace Tempest has been linked to the exploitation of a zero-day flaw in SysAid IT support software in limited attacks, according to new findings from Microsoft. Lace Tempest, which is known for distributing the Cl0p ransomware, has in the past leveraged zero-day flaws in

OnePlus 12 is expected to arrive soon in the market and succeed the current flagship model, OnePlus 11. The company has already confirmed some key specifications of the upcoming model. Design renders and other details were previously leaked by tipsters and now OnePlus has confirmed several important camera details of the smartphone. The OnePlus 12

Nov 09, 2023NewsroomEndpoint Security / Malware A new malvertising campaign has been found to employ fake sites that masquerade as legitimate Windows news portal to propagate a malicious installer for a popular system profiling tool called CPU-Z. “This incident is a part of a larger malvertising campaign that targets other utilities like Notepad++, Citrix, and

Google launched its generative AI-infused Search Generative Experience (SGE) in the US earlier this year and expanded the AI search tool to India and Japan in August. Now, Google is expanding SGE to more than 120 new countries and territories, the search engine giant said in a blog post Wednesday. SGE is also getting support

Nov 08, 2023NewsroomPrivacy / Data Security Meta-owned WhatsApp is officially rolling out a new privacy feature in its messaging service called “Protect IP Address in Calls” that masks users’ IP addresses to other parties by relaying the calls through its servers. “Calls are end-to-end encrypted, so even if a call is relayed through WhatsApp servers,

Google Pixel Watch 2 was launched last month during the company’s Made By Google event. The newly unveiled smart wearable, powered by a Qualcomm 5100 SoC is heading to more shelves across the globe, however, rumours about next year’s Pixel Watch 3 have already started surfacing on the Web. According to a new patent filing,

Nov 08, 2023NewsroomCloud Security / Cryptocurrency Cybersecurity researchers have developed what’s the first fully undetectable cloud-based cryptocurrency miner leveraging the Microsoft Azure Automation service without racking up any charges. Cybersecurity company SafeBreach said it discovered three different methods to run the miner, including one that can be executed on a victim’s environment without attracting any

Samsung usually announces its flagship Galaxy S series in either January or February during its Galaxy Unpacked launch event. We have already heard multiple rumours about the upcoming Galaxy S24 phones including their potential pricing. Thanks to a new leak, we now also know when it could launch. A well-known known tipster claims that Samsung

Nov 07, 2023NewsroomEndpoint Security / Malware The North Korea-linked nation-state group called BlueNoroff has been attributed to a previously undocumented macOS malware strain dubbed ObjCShellz. Jamf Threat Labs, which disclosed details of the malware, said it’s used as part of the RustBucket malware campaign, which came to light earlier this year. “Based on previous attacks