The ongoing campaign targets people in the UK, fake offering them free checkup kits from NHS for testing the Omicron variant. It’s aimed at stealing the PII of people, and also collecting petty payments for delivering the kits, thereby stealing their bank details too. Omicron Based Phishing Campaign Last week, many health institutions including the World Health Organization have declared that COVID-19’s new variant – Omicron is a concerning matter....

But one prominent question among all is the entity status of OnePlus, which is now cleared through a memo shared by a leaker. Based on it, OnePlus will be a subsidiary of Oppo but will function with full independence in most terms. Oppo and OnePlus Merger Entity Status For a long, both Oppo and OnePlus have been under the same roof of BBK Electronics. These Chinese giants have so far strived well in the smartphone space and now decided to merge for better opportunities....

While there are no new features introduced, Microsoft slightly improved the looks of the existing tool and few functions. For example, the Paint app on Windows 11 now has a new brush menu, text box, and color picker icons. This is said to be rolling to Windows Insiders soon. Windows 11 Paint App New Look Apart from few new functionalities, Windows 11 is all about new looks and design. However, the maker, Microsoft, stresses UI to make users believe the Window still has the scope and is intuitive....

This is available for OnePlus OnePlus 7 Pro, OnePlus 7T, and OnePlus 7T Pro, while the OnePlus 5 and 5T too are added to the list to have them run on Android 12. Although, you need to make setup some prerequisites to run in as needed. Paranoid Android Sapphire Beta 2 Features If you’ve been in the custom ROM space before, you must have known the Paranoid Android OS at some point....

DISH Network Wins Lawsuit In late 2019, an American broadcaster company named DISH Network filed a case against the sites Freetvall.net, Freetvall.xyz, Freetvall.me, Freetvall.live, Livetvcafe.com, Livetvcafe.net, Livetvcafe.me, Time4tv.com, Time4tv.net, Time4tv.me, Cricket-tv.net, Crickettv.me, Tv4embed.com, and A1livetv.com, since they’re displaying their copyrighted content without permission. It’s reported that all these domains were managed by one operator named Nauman Khalid from Pakistan. Also, DISH Network claims to have sent at least 49 notices to Khalid over the years warning him to stop the practice....

Cards to Apps, and Back to Cards Physical cards are deemed to be the best alternative for cash, as they’re really helpful in terms of both online payments and carrying liquid cash. But, they’re wearing out eventually. And this payment industry is now taken as a storm by software apps processed by financial tech companies. But still, those tech companies are drawing us back with physical cards again. And joining this pursuit is the new player, Samsung....

Protected by military-grade security, the new Samsung wallet is capable of storing digital car keys, identification cards, boarding passes, and payment data for quick payments. This is available to users in a few select countries in Europe, and the US initially. Samsung Wallet For All Your Digital Needs Aside from excelling in the smartphone industry by selling hundreds of millions of units every year, Samsung is also competing against digital services providers in most segments....

Service NSW Revealed the Scope of Email Breach Service NSW is a one-stop-shop for all general government services for the public, existing with 101 centers across the state of NSW, Australia. It serves people with registrations of marriage, birth, death, vehicles, fair trading, payment of fines, etc. The department has announced that about 47 of its staff members were fallen for a phishing attack earlier this year, where the data of the public may have breached....

You can use many more applications to install Showbox on Apple devices, such as Zestia Installer, Othman, and vshare. We can demonstrate the vshare method because it is a popular application used by iPhone and iPad users. Some users already have this application installed on their Apple iOS devices. ShowBox For iPad Without Jailbreak Below you can see the simplest steps to install Showbox on your Apple device such as iPad, iPhone, etc....

The island nation is one of the few richest ones in Asia. Though little, Singapore is a developed economy which is fuelled by technology, tourism and banking. With such advancement, hackers have plenty of chances to bank on this nation. The recent attack is done two institutions to which the government has contracted for their defence personnel’s activities. Institutions and Numbers Health Sciences Pte Ltd (HMI Institute) and ST Logistics Pte Ltd (ST Logistics) are the two institutions that were reportedly hacked....

Using carefully crafted phishing emails as the primary vector, TA558 is dropping a RAT into the victim’s systems, performing surveillance and modifying the settings within to divert the customer finds to his account. Aside from this, he’s also stealing the PII and sensitive payment card data too, which can be used for other malicious operations. Enter, Observe, and Steal As noted by Proofpoint researchers in their blog, a threat actor tracked as TA558 is hitting companies in the hospitality industry – especially hotels with a phishing campaign to steal their customers’ data and funds....

Instead of developing new ways, the infamous group is slightly adjusting its old techniques to infect victim’s devices and steal their virtual assets. One new form is subjected to Lazarus executing its malware directly in memory itself rather than leaving digital footprints in hard drives. Aside from this, the group’s found to be using Telegram to and fake websites to deceive users and inject malware. Titled as Operation AppleJeus Sequel, Kaspersky labs revealed how Lazarus techniques are evolving....

Banking on the Biggest Movement Trickbot malware has grown its name as a banking trojan in the past. And it’s now developed with various features to not just steal banking details, but also other login credentials, spreading across networks and even setting backdoors to dump other payloads. It’s even reported that Trickbot has partnered with ransomware operators to let them access through Trickbot’s backdoors! While all these are worrying, here’s a new reason to worry more....

Twitter fitted Podcasts in the redesigned Spaces tab, where it’ll automatically categorize the content according to their nature. Users will be suggested both Spaces and Podcasts based on their interests and can be tuned by liking or disliking them. Podcasts on Twitter Though comprised of text and video, Twitter has long been a tweet-only platform. The company started venturing into the audio field after observing the rise of Clubhouse last year....

Upstox Data Breach Leaking Customers’ PII Upstox is the second-largest Indian stockbroking firm in terms of active clients. Earlier today, an independent security researcher named Rajasekhar Rajaharia has pointed out a data breach relating to Upstox, that has leaked the sensitive information of 2.5 million customers online. Rajaharia has earlier disclosed a data breach at MobiKwik and now shared that a ransomware group called ShinyHunters breached the Upstox server, and leaked over 56 million KYC of their customers....

The Convicts and the story William Barr says the four persons – Liu Lei, Wang Qian, Wu Zhiyong, and Xu Ke are believed to be members of the Chinese People Liberation Army (PLA)! Barr claims that these four convicts belonged to the 54th Research Institute of PLA, have not only stolen the data of millions, but also the company’s proprietary data. The timeline says the actual breach happened in summer 2016, and Equifax disclosed it in September 2017....

Not many people are aware of this very term. Internet Time Machine is undoubtedly one of the most critical resources of the internet. It takes you back in time, where you can view how the most popular websites used to look back then. Years and years of valuable information are stored here. What is the Internet Time Machine or Wayback Machine? Internet Time Machine, also called Wayback Machine, is a digital archive of the internet....

The Conversion Flaw Zoom’s been having a fine time due to Coronavirus, as the service is used by millions amidst the breakout. Though it’s serving many with their work from home things, it’s deeply scrutinized by many experts for possible flaws. And here it is, blamed for sharing users’ personal data with third-party services like Facebook and now, for a simple flaw which is automatic. Zoom conferencing has a feature that automatically turns any URL into a clickable link so that participants can click on it and open in their default browser....

Rolling out to the YouTube Studio app on Android and iOS makes it easy for creators to make simple Shorts with existing videos and have their original video linked to it at the end. Creators can even add another video from the local storage or record something to make it a proper Short video. Spinning a Short From Long YouTube Video YouTube is one of the many platforms that added support for making a short video – observing the rise of TikTok in key markets....

A New Game? Slashing copyright infringers like pirates sites with lawsuits in common, and sometimes useless. This led many of those copyright holders to settle with infringers unofficially for a price or kind. And Kerry Culpepper is one such person. He represents many Hollywood cinema makers like Millennium Films, Voltage Films, etc. He has filed a case against several YTS clone sites through his Hawaiian company called 42 Ventures. 42 Ventures were established last year, and has registered the trademark for the title “YTS”....