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Jul 06, 2023The Hacker News Gcore Radar is a quarterly report prepared by Gcore that provides insights into the current state of the DDoS protection market and cybersecurity trends. This report offers you an understanding of the evolving threat landscape and highlights the measures required to protect against attacks effectively. It serves as an insight

Oppo Reno 10 5G series is scheduled to launch in India on July 10. The latest series from Oppo will include the Oppo Reno 10, Reno 10 Pro, and Reno 10 Pro+. The company has not announced the expected price of the handsets yet. However, a recent leak suggested that the Oppo Reno 10 5G series

Secrets are meant to be hidden or, at the very least, only known to a specific and limited set of individuals (or systems). Otherwise, they aren’t really secrets. In personal life, a secret revealed can damage relationships, lead to social stigma, or, at the very least, be embarrassing. In a developer’s or application security engineer’s

The OnePlus Nord 3 5G has officially launched as a successor to the Nord 2T (Review) in India. The new Nord flagship gets massive upgrades on paper over the model it replaces. OnePlus has packed MediaTek’s flagship-series SoC and a primary camera sensor from the OnePlus 11 (Review). The Nord 3 continues to offer SuperVOOC charging, a

Jul 05, 2023Ravie LakshmananCritical Infrastructure Security A sophisticated stealer-as-a-ransomware threat dubbed RedEnergy has been spotted in the wild targeting energy utilities, oil, gas, telecom, and machinery sectors in Brazil and the Philippines through their LinkedIn pages. The malware “possesses the ability to steal information from various browsers, enabling the exfiltration of sensitive data, while also

Tecno Camon 20 Premier 5G is set to launch in India on July 7. The phone launched earlier this year in select global markets alongside two other models of the Tecno Camon 20 series – the Tecno Camon 20 and Tecno Camon 20 Pro 5G. The 8GB + 256GB variant of the Camon 20 is

Jul 04, 2023Ravie LakshmananPrivacy / Online Security The Swedish data protection watchdog has warned companies against using Google Analytics due to risks posed by U.S. government surveillance, following similar moves by Austria, France, and Italy last year. The development comes in the aftermath of an audit initiated by the Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY)

Vivo is likely to expand its V-series smartphones in China with the launch of the Vivo V29 5G. The handset has reportedly been spotted on the FCC certification website hinting at some of its key specifications. The smartphone was also spotted on the NBTC certification site recently. It is tipped to pack a 4,505mAh battery.

The threat actors behind the DDoSia attack tool have come up with a new version that incorporates a new mechanism to retrieve the list of targets to be bombarded with junk HTTP requests in an attempt to bring them down. The updated variant, written in Golang, “implements an additional security mechanism to conceal the list

Infinix is all set to unveil the Infinix Hot 30 5G smartphone in India soon. The company has revealed the expected launch date along with a few key specifications and price range for the upcoming smartphone. The phone is expected to launch next week. The company has also confirmed the colour options for the upcoming

Jul 03, 2023The Hacker NewsWebsite Security Tool Every website owner or webmaster grapples with the issue of spam on their website forms. The volume of spam can be so overwhelming that finding useful information within it becomes quite challenging. What exacerbates this issue is that spam can populate your public pages, appearing in comments and

Realme is gearing up for the launch of a new GT Neo series phone in China. Expected to be names as Realme GT Neo 6, the smartphone’s design and specifications have been hinted on the internet. The leaked details suggest that the purported Realme GT Neo 6 could get a dual-toned back panel. Recently, the

Jul 03, 2023Ravie LakshmananMalware Attack / Cyberespionage A Chinese nation-state group has been observed targeting Foreign Affairs ministries and embassies in Europe using HTML smuggling techniques to deliver the PlugX remote access trojan on compromised systems. Cybersecurity firm Check Point said the activity, dubbed SmugX, has been ongoing since at least December 2022. “The campaign

WhatsApp has begun testing a feature that will allow users to send high-quality videos on the popular messaging platform. The feature has been spotted on the latest beta versions of WhatsApp for iOS and Android, and comes shortly after a similar feature that allowed users to send high quality photos was rolled out to beta

Jun 30, 2023Ravie LakshmananServer Security / Cyber Threat An active financially motivated campaign is targeting vulnerable SSH servers to covertly ensnare them into a proxy network. “This is an active campaign in which the attacker leverages SSH for remote access, running malicious scripts that stealthily enlist victim servers into a peer-to-peer (P2P) proxy network, such

Honor X50 is set to launch in the first week of July as a successor to the Honor X40, which was released in September 2022. The Honor X40 was released with an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 695 SoC paired with an Adreno 619 GPU and a 5,100mAh battery with 40W fast charging support. The company recently announced at

Jun 30, 2023Ravie LakshmananPrivacy / Tech Meta’s WhatsApp has rolled out updates to its proxy feature, allowing more flexibility in the kind of content that can be shared in conversations. This includes the ability to send and receive images, voice notes, files, stickers and GIFs, WhatsApp told The Hacker News. The new features were first

Tecno Camon 20 Premier 5G is set to launch in India on July 7. The phone was released globally earlier this year in May, alongside the other Tecno Camon 20 series models. The lineup also included a base Tecno Camon 20 and a Tecno Camon 20 Pro 5G model. The storage configurations and price of the

Jul 01, 2023Ravie LakshmananEndpoint Security / Malware Researchers have pulled back the curtain on an updated version of an Apple macOS malware called Rustbucket that comes with improved capabilities to establish persistence and avoid detection by security software. “This variant of Rustbucket, a malware family that targets macOS systems, adds persistence capabilities not previously observed,”

Realme Buds Wireless 3 is confirmed to be released in India on July 6. The upcoming Bluetooth earphones will succeed the Realme Buds Wireless 2, which were launched in May 2021 and come with an active noise cancellation feature and support for the LDAC advanced Bluetooth codec, 13.6mm dynamic drivers, up to 22 hours of battery life per