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Samsung Galaxy M34 5G is scheduled to launch in India in the second week of July, the company has confirmed. Design renders of the phone have also been revealed by the smartphone maker. The handset will be offered for purchase via the Amazon website, and the Samsung India online and offline retail stores. Previously, the phone

Jun 27, 2023Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber Threat A new process injection technique dubbed Mockingjay could be exploited by threat actors to bypass security solutions to execute malicious code on compromised systems. “The injection is executed without space allocation, setting permissions or even starting a thread,” Security Joes researchers Thiago Peixoto, Felipe Duarte, and Ido Naor

iQoo 11S is all set to launch on July 4 in China. The Vivo sub-brand, via Weibo, has confirmed the arrival of the new iQoo 11-series smartphone in its home country. The iQoo TWS 1 earbuds will also go official alongside the handset. iQoo has started accepting pre-reservations for the iQoo 11S via its official

Jun 26, 2023Ravie LakshmananCryptography / Cybersecurity In what’s an ingenious side-channel attack, a group of academics has found that it’s possible to recover secret keys from a device by analyzing video footage of its power LED. “Cryptographic computations performed by the CPU change the power consumption of the device which affects the brightness of the

Google has urged India’s Supreme Court to quash antitrust directives against it for abuse of the Android market, two sources said, as its presses its legal battle against the competition watchdog in one of its most important markets. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) said in October that Google, whose Android mobile operating system powers

Jun 26, 2023Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Endpoint Security An unknown cryptocurrency exchange located in Japan was the target of a new attack earlier this month to deploy an Apple macOS backdoor called JokerSpy. Elastic Security Labs, which is monitoring the intrusion set under the name REF9134, said the attack led to the installation of Swiftbelt, a

Most of the flagship smartphones currently available in the market feature up to 16GB of RAM. This might soon change as there have been rumours floating around the Internet stating that upcoming handsets could offer up to 24GB of RAM. China’s BBK electronics-owned firms OnePlus, Oppo, and Realme seem to be heading towards the launch

Jun 23, 2023Ravie LakshmananThreat Intel / Endpoint Security The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) on Thursday released guidance to help organizations detect and prevent infections of a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit called BlackLotus. To that end, the agency is recommending that “infrastructure owners take action by hardening user executable policies and monitoring the

YouTube is internally testing a product for playing online games, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday citing an email sent to employees at parent company Google. The company invited its employees to begin testing the new YouTube product called ‘Playables’, the report said, adding that games available for testing included titles such as arcade

Jun 24, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Crime / Cryptocurrency A U.K. citizen who took part in the massive July 2020 hack of Twitter has been sentenced to five years in prison in the U.S. Joseph James O’Connor (aka PlugwalkJoe), 24, was awarded the sentence on Friday in the Southern District of New York, a little over a

WhatsApp is making it easier for users to reject unwanted calls. The instant messaging app from Meta now allows to users to silence spam calls from unknown contacts. These calls can also be from numbers not saved in your contact list. The feature was announced earlier last week, and is available on the stable versions

Jun 24, 2023Ravie LakshmananThreat Intel / Zero Day The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added a batch of six flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. This comprises three vulnerabilities that Apple patched this week (CVE-2023-32434, CVE-2023-32435, and CVE-2023-32439), two flaws in VMware (CVE-2023-20867 and CVE-2023-20887), and

Samsung has reportedly started working on the next iteration of its high-end phones i.e., the Galaxy S24 series. The phones’ expected specifications and rumours have already started doing rounds on the internet. In the latest development, the codenames of the handsets. in the series have emerged online. Samsung uses codenames for its high-end smartphones. This

Jun 23, 2023Ravie LakshmananMalware / Cyber Threat A new strain of JavaScript dropper has been observed delivering next-stage payloads like Bumblebee and IcedID. Cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct is tracking the malware as PindOS, which contains the name in its “User-Agent” string. Both Bumblebee and IcedID serve as loaders, acting as a vector for other malware

The Vivo X90s is launching next week and ahead of its debut, a third-party retailer has leaked the storage options for the upcoming phone. The VivoX90s will reportedly be launched in three RAM and storage configurations. It is tipped to come with UFS 4.0 storage. Along with the memory details, the leak has also revealed

Jun 23, 2023Ravie LakshmananSocial Engineering / Phishing A threat actor known as Muddled Libra is targeting the business process outsourcing (BPO) industry with persistent attacks that leverage advanced social engineering ploys to gain initial access. “The attack style defining Muddled Libra appeared on the cybersecurity radar in late 2022 with the release of the 0ktapus

Amazfit Cheetah and Cheetah Pro have been launched as the company’s latest smartwatches for the runners. The wearables are equipped with AI-powered Zepp Coach that is said to offer personalised training plans along with progress tracking. The watch also features precise navigation and offline maps, and lets users save location points as well. Both the

The case for browser fingerprinting: personalizing user experience, improving fraud detection, and optimizing login security Have you ever heard of browser fingerprinting? You should! It’s an online user identification technique that collects information about a visitor’s web browser and its configuration preferences to associate individual browsing sessions with a single website visitor. With browser fingerprinting,

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 5 may not be getting too many design changes as per the latest leaks. Most of the upgrades with Samsung’s Galaxy Z lineup this year, seem to be reserved for its smaller and more accessible Galaxy Z Flip 5 foldable. The smaller flipping foldable is expected to get a larger and

Jun 22, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Phishing A new phishing campaign codenamed MULTI#STORM has set its sights on India and the U.S. by leveraging JavaScript files to deliver remote access trojans on compromised systems. “The attack chain ends with the victim machine infected with multiple unique RAT (remote access trojan) malware instances, such as Warzone