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iQoo 12 series is scheduled to launch on November 7. The lineup is said to include a base and a pro model. The company has confirmed the processor details of the handsets previously. Other details of the upcoming smartphones have been doing rounds of the rumour mills over the past few weeks. Ahead of the

Oct 28, 2023NewsroomPrivacy / Data Security New findings have shed light on what’s said to be a lawful attempt to covertly intercept traffic originating from jabber[.]ru (aka xmpp[.]ru), an XMPP-based instant messaging service, via servers hosted on Hetzner and Linode (a subsidiary of Akamai) in Germany. “The attacker has issued several new TLS certificates using

Oppo A79 5G was launched in India on Friday as the latest offering in the A-series lineup. The new 5G phone comes in two colour options and is powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 6020 SoC, coupled with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. The Oppo A79 5G features a 6.72-inch full-HD+ display with a

Oct 27, 2023NewsroomCyber Attack / Malware The North Korea-aligned Lazarus Group has been attributed as behind a new campaign in which an unnamed software vendor was compromised through the exploitation of known security flaws in another high-profile software. The attack sequences, according to Kaspersky, culminated in the deployment of malware families such as SIGNBT and

Amazon’s Great Indian Festival sale started on October 7 for its Prime members in India. The sale was then opened to all users a day later. During this sale, lucrative discounts are being offered on a wide range of products including electronic items, home appliances, fashion products, furniture and more. Most of these items are

When organizations start incorporating cybersecurity regulations and cyber incident reporting requirements into their security protocols, it’s essential for them to establish comprehensive plans for preparation, mitigation, and response to potential threats. At the heart of your business lies your operational technology and critical systems. This places them at the forefront of cybercriminal interest, as they

Realme GT 5 Pro is confirmed to debut soon with the latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chipset. Realme didn’t give a timeframe for the flagship smartphone announcement just yet, but ahead of it, a Realme smartphone with model number RMX3888 has been spotted on the TENAA website. The listing suggests a 50-megapixel triple rear camera

Oct 26, 2023NewsroomData Security / Vulnerability A group of academics has devised a novel side-channel attack dubbed iLeakage that exploits a weakness in the A- and M-series CPUs running on Apple iOS, iPadOS, and macOS devices, enabling the extraction of sensitive information from the Safari web browser. “An attacker can induce Safari to render an

Xiaomi 14 and Xiaomi 14 Pro were unveiled at the company’s launch event in China on Thursday. The new pair of smartphones come with Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC and run on Xiaomi’s HyperOS, a replacement for the company’s MIUI interface. The Xiaomi 14 series smartphones feature LTPO OLED displays with up to 2K resolution

Oct 26, 2023NewsroomCyber Threat / Malware The Iranian threat actor known as Tortoiseshell has been attributed to a new wave of watering hole attacks that are designed to deploy a malware dubbed IMAPLoader. “IMAPLoader is a .NET malware that has the ability to fingerprint victim systems using native Windows utilities and acts as a downloader

Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 was launched by Qualcomm earlier this week as the company’s newest flagship mobile processor. We can expect the new chipset to feature on flagship smartphones that will debut in the coming weeks and months — starting with the Xiaomi 14 that will be launched in China on Thursday. According to Qualcomm,

Oct 25, 2023NewsroomThreat Intelligence / Vulnerability The threat actor known as Winter Vivern has been observed exploiting a zero-day flaw in Roundcube webmail software on October 11, 2023, to harvest email messages from victims’ accounts. “Winter Vivern has stepped up its operations by using a zero-day vulnerability in Roundcube,” ESET security researcher Matthieu Faou said

Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 was announced by Qualcomm at the chipmaker’s annual Snapdragon Summit event on Tuesday. The new chip will power flagship Android smartphones from a range of manufacturers expected to debut in the coming weeks and months — starting with the Xiaomi 14 that will be launched on October 26. OEMs like Asus, Honor,

Qualcomm announced a host of new products and services, including its flagship Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor, at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii on Tuesday. The company also unveiled a new cross-platform technology that allows for seamless linking of multiple devices in a single ecosystem. Snapdragon Seamless, the company said, enables Android, Windows and Snapdragon

Oct 25, 2023NewsroomExploit / Vulnerability Virtualization services provider VMware has alerted customers to the existence of a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a recently patched security flaw in Aria Operations for Logs. Tracked as CVE-2023-34051 (CVSS score: 8.1), the high-severity vulnerability relates to a case of authentication bypass that could lead to remote code execution. “An

Qualcomm announced its latest flagship mobile platform, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, on Tuesday at the Snapdragon Summit. The successor to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 SoC promises to bring a host of new upgrades and claims to be the first mobile platform focusing on generative AI. The SoC’s AI engine supports multi-modal generative AI

Oct 24, 2023NewsroomCyber Fraud / Cyber Crime Spanish law enforcement officials have announced the arrest of 34 members of a criminal group that carried out various online scams, netting the gang about €3 million ($3.2 million) in illegal profits. Authorities conducted searches across 16 locations Madrid, Malaga, Huelva, Alicante, and Murcia, seizing two simulated firearms,

iQoo 10 Pro, launched in July last year, became the first smartphone from the company to offer 200W fast charging support. It packed a 4,700mAh battery. Its successor, the iQoo 11 Pro also offered similar battery specifications. The company has also introduced support for 200W fast charging this year on iQoo 11S, which comes with

Oct 23, 2023The Hacker NewsArtificial Intelligence / Cybersecurity With the record-setting growth of consumer-focused AI productivity tools like ChatGPT, artificial intelligence—formerly the realm of data science and engineering teams—has become a resource available to every employee. From a productivity perspective, that’s fantastic. Unfortunately for IT and security teams, it also means you may have hundreds

OnePlus 12 is expected to debut soon as the next-generation flagship offering from the Chinese smartphone brand. OnePlus is yet to confirm the launch date of the handset, but we already know quite a lot about it. Most recently, a Chinese tipster hinted the OnePlus 12 will come with significant upgrades over its predecessor —