At the time of shutdown, both the marketplaces are serving hundreds of thousands of visitors, transacting illegal goods, drugs, malware, and stolen identity. Though they were closed now, the police warned that some other similar sites may soon show up to fill the gap. AlphaBay and Hansa Shutdown Four years after the seizing of Silk Road, the notorious dark web marketplace of its times, we now see two more similar platforms shut down by the police....

Unknown Numbers The company hasn’t revealed the exact numbers of how many customers were breached nor the number of employees involved in the incident. While TechCrunch reports there’s only one employee caused this breach, Business Insider reports multiple employees involved in this incident.

It was followed by Samsung by a grand margin, and Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo were in the next places. The research report also stated that most OEMs had seen growth sharply due to their 5G handsets, as the latest connectivity is picking up everywhere around the world. Apple’s Commanding Market Share Ever since the pandemic struck, Apple surpassed Samsung to become the No.1 smartphone marker in most quarters. And now, as per the latest data from Counterpoint Research, Apple is holding its top spot with a significant market share for Q3 2022....

This new service will make it easier for people to upgrade to a new iPhone, through a monthly subscription model. Also, this will let the company have a steady revenue stream from hardware sales. Though there are no pricing details available yet, Bloomberg stated Apple may roll out this program by this year’s fall or early next year. Apple’s Hardware Subscription Model Except for SE models, all other iPhones are unbelievably expensive....

As per it, Apple is informing its authorized service providers to modify their equipment accordingly. As this comes after October 1st, this will likely be applying to the iPhone 14 series and the next generation of iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches. Longer Serial Numbers for Apple Devices Serial numbers of any device will help the consumers, manufacturer, or dealer in between to identify the details of the product, viz its manufacturing date and location....

The new Privacy Hub section contains information on trackers and what type of data websites collect from us, and why. Further, Brave added Fingerprint protection and Certificate Viewer features to empower users’ web privacy. New Privacy Features in Brave iOS App Brave is one of the several web browsers that rose to prominence among people who’re frustrated with the regular data tracking browsers like Chrome. Brave names itself as the best privacy-focused browser that aims to protect users’ privacy and data security on the web....

Currently, the templates only target Microsoft Office 365 login pages and mostly concern the Russian and Chinese themes. But, researchers warn authors to add more templates gradually to expand the scope of this kit. An Easy-to-Use Phishing Kit Phishing is one of the most simplest means of attacking someone with a carefully crafted page and nothing else. As it requires deep editing of all the elements on the phishing page, several services exist to offer such customized templates for a certain fee and only for certain people....

Targets will be scammed after investing a significant amount in it, by being locked out of their accounts. Researchers said the campaign was seen initially in Asia, but now expanded to the EU and US, stealing funds over $1.4 million to date. Targeting Users Dating Apps Researchers at Sophos security firm released a new report this week, detailing a fraud campaign resulting in victims losing money. Named as CryptoRom, the scam is heavily based on social engineering....

While he didn’t specifically mention how much the new limit would be, it’s assumed to be around 4,000 words. This would eliminate the need for users to post an essay in broken tweets but in a whole form block at once. Twitter’s New Character Limit One major reason that makes Twitter stand out from all other social media platforms is the low character limit. Since its inception, Twitter has only changed the character limit once!...

Depending to Contributing For years, or at least in the initial stages, Facebook has relied upon Linux’s open-source tools for developing its platform. Not just Facebook, but every tech company has something to take from the Linux or its open-source tools. Thus, becoming a major member to contribute to it would help develop others in further. In such pursuit, Facebook is joining the Linux Foundation as a Platinum Member! Facebook has long been a member of the open-source group, but now, the company’s head of open-source department, Kathy Kim is joining the board of Linux Foundation....

Also, it introduced changing chat themes, disappearing messages, boomerang-like stickers, and a range of privacy settings to control cross-platform messaging. Facebook Lets Users Chat Across Instagram and Messenger While users thinking it’s growing innovative and offering fun features, Facebook is strengthening its market dominance by locking users within its space. The company’s announcements yesterday and today make it more clear that it’s framing an environment where users find no better reason to switch to another social platform....

FIN12 is said to be using TrickBot or BazarLoader malware for initial access into the target network, rather than hitting the victim directly through native means. Also, they don’t tend to dump stolen data if the victim doesn’t pay, unlike other hacking groups. The Russian Ransomware Group in Wild Out of all the organizations out there, healthcare is considered to be the most sensitive as it deals with patients. And a sudden stoppage of critical services may choke everyone....

But, currently, the PC version users of Telegram are facing issues with their app. They are complaining about an issue that the Telegram app is not opening on their Windows desktop. Although right now, the reason behind this anxious error is a mystery, we have still tried our best to help you resolve this issue here in this guide. So, let’s get started with it. Also Read- How to Send Self Destructing Messages in Telegram...

But this service was down during the critical match of the tournament – the semifinal between France and Morocco – that resulted in fans missing the entire game! FuboTV said it’s experiencing a cyber-related incident and has been working on it. FuboTV Service Outage With over 1.2 million subscribers, FuboTV is a fairly good platform to be targeted by hackers if there’s an open bug. May this have happened yesterday, as the platform showed a streaming error that blocked the football fans from streaming a critical FIFA match....

Law to suppress basic rights? Pakistan has drafted its Citizens Protection Rules regarding the internet censorship laws, which contained several particulars that may restrict the citizen’s freedom online. This required the social platforms like Facebook, Google, Twitter etc to remove any objectionable content from their platforms upon government’s demand within 24 hours. Further, they all should implement tools that prevent users from performing live streaming regarding terrorism, hate speech, fake news, extremism and inciting content....

This, as per reports, will divide into two parts – $700 million in equity purchase for 1.28% of Airtel, and the rest $300 million for scaling Airtel’s digital offerings in India. Google has earlier invested in Jio too, Airtel arc-rival for a board seat. Google Invests in Airtel American tech giants poaching on Indian companies isn’t new. We’ve seen a number of tech company acquisitions in past, like from Facebook into Jio to Walmart into Flipkart and more....

Some of these include Activision Blizzard, Riot Games, Ubisoft, and Nintendo. While Activision called the allegations nonsense, Google said the agreements made with rivals are to promote healthy competition and offer more options for app distribution. Google’s Project Hug Initiative Epic Games has been fighting several antitrust lawsuits against the tech giants – Apple and Google – for the last couple of years, citing their monopolistic practices in the market....

The string lines in the latest version of the app (v5.18) revealed two new features, namely skypallete and preprocessing suggestions. Also, there’s a hint for promoting users to upsell their Google One suite. Google Photos to Get Premium Editing Features Soon The native photos app of Google, Google Photos, has been so important to users as it bears all the memories. While it replaces the good old Gallery, it justifies with fine features like categorizing photos intelligently, backing up automatically, and having basic editing options....

When you clear the app cache, the temporary information stored in the cache regarding the app will be removed. Usually, when the temporary data stays in the cache for a long time, that may cause the app to malfunction. After the cache is refreshed, when you start using the app, temporary information starts building within the cache. Clear App Cache Without Deleting the App Before I show you how to clear the app cache without deleting the app, let me address a commonly asked question....

You will be suggested similar websites and personalized advertisements when you browse any site. Also, if the website requires you to sign in to access then your credentials will be saved due to cookies. Later when you land on the same website you can swiftly log in when you access it. Now, you may ask then what’s the need to clear cookies on iPhone? Cookies in the long run can consume storage space on your iPhone....