Technology

Feb 14, 2023Ravie Lakshmanan Web infrastructure company Cloudflare on Monday disclosed that it thwarted a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at over 71 million requests per second (RPS). “The majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50-70 million requests per second (RPS) with the largest exceeding 71 million,” the company said, calling

Samsung’s recently launched Galaxy S23 series, especially the Galaxy S23 Ultra, seem to have a lot of unannounced tricks up its sleeves. Among the fewer hardware upgrades announced for the Galaxy S23 and the Galaxy S23 Plus models this year, are some interesting software features including the phone’s ability to lift objects from photos. The

Feb 13, 2023Ravie LakshmananGame Hacking / Cyber Threat An unknown threat actor created malicious game modes for the Dota 2 multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game that could have been exploited to establish backdoor access to players’ systems. The modes exploited a high-severity flaw in the V8 JavaScript engine tracked as CVE-2021-38003 (CVSS score:

Samsung’s One UI 5.1 software update was unveiled earlier this month during the first Galaxy Unpacked event of the year that saw the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S23 series. The update doesn’t bring major UI changes compared to the One UI 5.0 update. However, it includes the Expert RAW feature, which enables users to

Feb 13, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat Intelligence The advanced persistent threat (APT) actor known as Tonto Team carried out an unsuccessful attack on cybersecurity company Group-IB in June 2022. The Singapore-headquartered firm said that it detected and blocked malicious phishing emails originating from the group targeting its employees. It’s also the second attack aimed at Group-IB,

Xiaomi 13 Lite could soon make its debut in global markets. There have been rumours suggesting that this handset could be a rebranded version of the Xiaomi Civi 2 that was launched in China last year. A reliable tipster has shared a video of the Xiaomi 13 Lite being unboxed, ahead of its expected launch.

Feb 10, 2023Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Ransomware State-backed hackers from North Korea are conducting ransomware attacks against healthcare and critical infrastructure facilities to fund illicit activities, U.S. and South Korean cybersecurity and intelligence agencies warned in a joint advisory. The attacks, which demand cryptocurrency ransoms in exchange for recovering access to encrypted files, are designed

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain the plea of Google LLC seeking modification of its January 19 order and said the company can raise its grievances during hearing of its appeal before the NCLAT. A bench of Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and Justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala said at

Suspected Russian threat actors have been targeting Eastern European users in the crypto industry with fake job opportunities as bait to install information-stealing malware on compromised hosts. The attackers “use several highly obfuscated and under-development custom loaders in order to infect those involved in the cryptocurrency industry with Enigma stealer,” Trend Micro researchers Aliakbar Zahravi

Oppo Find N2 Flip’s global launch event is set to take place on February 15, as announced by the company. However, it appears that the Oppo Find 2 will not be making its way to the global market. Both these foldable smartphones have been launched in China. The Oppo Find N2 Flip sports a clamshell

Feb 11, 2023Ravie LakshmananRansomware / Endpoint Security After the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a decryptor for affected victims to recover from ESXiArgs ransomware attacks, the threat actors have bounced back with an updated version that encrypts more data. The emergence of the new variant was reported by a system administrator on

Infinix Zero 5G 2023 series was launched in India on February 4. Starting today (February 11), Infinix has commenced the official sale of the latest entry-level smartphone series which includes the vanilla Infinix Zero 5G 2023, and Infinix Zero 5G 2023 Turbo Edition. The sale is currently live exclusively on Flipkart. Both 5G smartphones from

Feb 11, 2023Ravie LakshmananThreat Response / Vulnerability The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added three flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active abuse in the wild. Included among the three is CVE-2022-24990, a bug affecting TerraMaster network-attached storage (TNAS) devices that could lead to unauthenticated remote

Redmi 12C could be launched in global markets soon. Conflicting reports regarding the branding of this upcoming handset have surfaced online. The handset was previously tipped to launch globally as the Poco C55, while a recent report suggests that the Redmi 12C will debut in India in this month. Now, a new Xiaomi handset has

Feb 10, 2023Ravie LakshmananSupply Chain / Software Security Four different rogue packages in the Python Package Index (PyPI) have been found to carry out a number of malicious actions, including dropping malware, deleting the netstat utility, and manipulating the SSH authorized_keys file. The packages in question are aptx, bingchilling2, httops, and tkint3rs, all of which

Nokia G22, an upcoming smartphone from the Nokia G-series, has recently appeared on benchmarking website Geekbench, hinting at some of its key specifications. As per the listing, the smartphone could run on Stock Android based on Android 12 out-of-the-box. The Nokia G22 has been spotted to come with an octa-core 1.8GHz Unisoc T606 SoC. It

Feb 10, 2023Ravie LakshmananData Breach / Source Code Popular social news aggregation platform Reddit has disclosed that it was the victim of a security incident that enabled unidentified threat actors to gain unauthorized access to internal documents, code, and some unspecified business systems. The company blamed it on a “sophisticated and highly-targeted phishing attack” that

Samsung Galaxy S23 series, including the base Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23+, and Galaxy S23 Ultra, has been launched globally. These Samsung flagship smartphones are set to go on sale in India on February 17. The South Korean tech giant has now unveiled a limited edition variant of the Galaxy S23 Ultra in collaboration with BMW

Feb 09, 2023Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / IoT Security A set of 38 security vulnerabilities has been uncovered in wireless industrial internet of things (IIoT) devices from four different vendors that could pose a significant attack surface for threat actors looking to exploit operational technology (OT) environments. “Threat actors can exploit vulnerabilities in Wireless IIoT devices

Lava Blaze 5G, which debuted in November 2022, has officially been confirmed to launch in a new RAM variant. The homegrown company is bringing a 6GB RAM variant of the smartphone, while the existing model has 4GB RAM, which can be expanded virtually by 3GB. The smartphone is powered by a 7nm MediaTek Dimensity 700