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OnePlus has long been known mainly for its smartphones in India. However, over the past three years or so, it has also introduced smart TVs, monitors, personal audio products, and smartwatches. The company also designs and sells its own smartphone accessories along with backpacks and other travel gear. At a recent event, the brand even

Jun 01, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have offered a closer look at the RokRAT remote access trojan that’s employed by the North Korean state-sponsored actor known as ScarCruft. “RokRAT is a sophisticated remote access trojan (RAT) that has been observed as a critical component within the attack chain, enabling the threat actors

Realme C53 will launch in Malaysia on June 6. The upcoming C-series smartphone will join the Realme C55 that was released earlier this year in March with the Mini Capsule feature. The new handset will also sport the Mini Capsule, which has been compared to Apple’s Dynamic Island feature introduced with the iPhone 14 series last year.

May 31, 2023Ravie LakshmananServer Security / Cryptocurrency A financially motivated threat actor is actively scouring the internet for unprotected Apache NiFi instances to covertly install a cryptocurrency miner and facilitate lateral movement. The findings come from the SANS Internet Storm Center (ISC), which detected a spike in HTTP requests for “/nifi” on May 19, 2023.

Nothing Phone 2 is confirmed to launch globally in July. It will launch as the successor to the Nothing Phone 1 that was released in July 2022. Nothing CEO and former OnePlus Co-Founder Car Pei had previously confirmed a few key specifications of the handset. The upcoming smartphone will be powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8+

May 31, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat / Malware The threat actors behind RomCom RAT are leveraging a network of fake websites advertising rogue versions of popular software at least since July 2022 to infiltrate targets. Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro is tracking the activity cluster under the name Void Rabisu, which is also known as Tropical Scorpius

The Realme 11 Pro series is expected to offer up to 100W fast charging support. Realme 11 Pro and Realme 11 Pro+ will launch in India on June 8, the company has confirmed. Both smartphones were unveiled in China earlier this month alongside the vanilla Realme 11. The handsets come with MediaTek Dimensity SoCs and

May 30, 2023Ravie LakshmananZero Day / Vulnerability Multiple security flaws uncovered in Sonos One wireless speakers could be potentially exploited to achieve information disclosure and remote code execution, the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) said in a report published last week. The vulnerabilities were demonstrated by three different teams from Qrious Secure, STAR Labs, and DEVCORE

Xiaomi is expected to unleash an upgrade over its current Xiaomi 13 Pro by the end of this year. The Chinese smartphone brand is yet to confirm any details regarding the Xiaomi 14 Pro, but ahead of it, a well-known tipster has shared some specifications of the handset on the Web. Xiaomi is tipped to

May 30, 2023Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Android A new open source remote access trojan (RAT) called DogeRAT targets Android users primarily located in India as part of a sophisticated malware campaign. The malware is distributed via social media and messaging platforms under the guise of legitimate applications like Opera Mini, OpenAI ChatGOT, and Premium versions

Vivo Y78 5G has been launched in Singapore. The phone already debuted in China earlier this month. However, it carries different specifications from its Chinese variant, including a different display as well as chipset. The Vivo Y78 5G in China is powered by a Dimensity 930 SoC, whereas the global variant ships with a Snapdragon

May 29, 2023Ravie LakshmananAuthentication / Mobile Security Researchers have discovered an inexpensive attack technique that could be leveraged to brute-force fingerprints on smartphones to bypass user authentication and seize control of the devices. The approach, dubbed BrutePrint, bypasses limits put in place to counter failed biometric authentication attempts by weaponizing two zero-day vulnerabilities in the

Honor 90 and Honor 90 Pro were recently launched by the company in China. The handsets are equipped with 6.7-inch 120Hz OLED displays and are powered with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors. They are equipped with a 200-megapixel primary camera, a 12-megapixel ultra-wide angle camera, and a 50-megapixel selfie camera. Both phones run on Android 13-based MagicOS

A new phishing technique called “file archiver in the browser” can be leveraged to “emulate” a file archiver software in a web browser when a victim visits a .ZIP domain. “With this phishing attack, you simulate a file archiver software (e.g., WinRAR) in the browser and use a .zip domain to make it appear more

Redmi K50 Ultra with Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 SoC was launched in China in August last year. The smartphone is yet to make its debut in other global markets including India, but rumours of a possible successor — Redmi K60 Ultra—have already started doing rounds on the Web. Most recently, the schematics of

5G is a game changer for mobile connectivity, including mobile connectivity to the cloud. The technology provides high speed and low latency when connecting smartphones and IoT devices to cloud infrastructure. 5G networks are a critical part of all infrastructure layers between the end user and the end service; these networks transmit sensitive data that

Motorola Razr 40 is tipped to launch on June 1 alongside the Motorola Razr 40 Ultra. Ahead of its debut, the Razr series smartphone has been spotted on the benchmarking platform Geekbench and China’s Compulsory Certification (3C) website, giving us a look at some of its key specifications. The Geekbench listing points to a Snapdragon

May 27, 2023Ravie LakshmananAPI Security / Vulnerability A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in the Open Authorization (OAuth) implementation of the application development framework Expo.io. The shortcoming, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-28131, has a severity rating of 9.6 on the CVSS scoring system. API security firm Salt Labs said the issue rendered services using

WhatsApp is rolling out a screen sharing feature to testers on the latest beta version of the app for Android. Users who are on a video call will be able to tap a button to show the contents of their screen to other participants on the call. Screen sharing is a feature that is also