The amended bill is now broad enough to consider those who involve in serving pirated streams too, and not just the uploaders and downloaders. Thus, illegal streaming apps, websites, and other tools (both software and hardware) will be now be considered infringers, and subject to law enforcement. Malaysian Amended Copyright Bill Countries around the world making laws to thwart copyright infringers is a common thing, but the real change will only be seen if they’re so strict and implemented perfectly....

Code Verify works in association with Cloudflare, to which Meta has shared the actual WhatsApp Web code so that it can compare and check with what’s the user is using. If any discrepancies are found in the integrity of WhatsApp web, Code Verify will notify the user. Checking the Integrity of WhatsApp Web WhatsApp’s launch of multi-device support in the latest beta has led many users to try WhatsApp on multiple devices....

Meta acquired Giphy in 2020 for $400 million, which was soon countered by the UK regulator, as it may disturb the competition among social media platforms and the local advertising market. While Facebook is fighting that, the regulator is fining and discouraging the deal. UK Fining Meta For Irregularities Facebook changing the name to Meta hasn’t changed anything much. The company is still strangled with many problems and just added one now....

A Cryptocurrency Botnet Miner Cryptocurrency botnets are common but are not evolving. Here, the authors of KingMiner are found spending quality time in developing the malware with several functionalities to garner more results. Unlike other botnets that die after fulfilling their purpose, Sophos found KingMiner has been staying persistently to reap more and more profits for the maker. Further, it’s the same gang that’s documented by Qihoo and CheckPoint in past....

Outage maps on the site show most of the UK affected by problems for each. The outage comes in Black Friday, one of the biggest days of consumer spending in the world (where people will probably are likely to want to move their money around). Of course, customers from both NatWest and RBS have taken to Twitter to express their frustration. One said: “Black Friday and NatWest online banking down....

While it’s still early to decide on anything, it’s reasonable that Netflix won’t offer an offline viewing option for the ad-supported tier. It’s not just challenging to serve ads in offline mode but also helps Netflix to push users to upgrade to a pricier plans. Netflix Ad-Tier is Hard For Commuters After disappointing Q1 results, Netflix decided to be more brutal in getting its subscribers back. Few plans it announced in this pursuit are cracking down on password sharing and introducing an ad-tier plan with low cost....

This is the same quarter that Netflix reported losing subscribers for the first time in a decade and expecting more in the coming months. There are plenty of reasons for Netflix’s downfall, with competition being one of the main ones. Netflix is Losing Loyal Fans After reporting a fall in subscriber count for the first time in a decade of operation, Netflix receives yet another blow from a third-party analytics firm – that said the platform is losing its most loyal users due to various reasons....

Security Researchers Targeted With a Backdoor Campaign Hunting the hunter is a different game, which is now played by North Korean state-backed hackers as spotted by Google’s Threat Analysis Group. They detailed a campaign where the security researchers are being targeted on various social media platforms like Keybase, LinkedIn, Twitter, E-mail, Discord, and Telegram. Stay safe out there everyone! — Shane Huntley (@ShaneHuntley) January 26, 2021 Hackers here are creating fake profiles and messaging researchers for collaboration, and when agreed they’d send a Visual Studio project having a PoC of their work, which also contains a malicious DLL for setting a backdoor....

Researchers said the bug is regarding a parsing issue within certain versions of OpenSSL and needs a maliciously crafted certificate for triggering it. Once done, it puts the SSL connection in a loop of me a denial of service. OpenSSL team has released patches for this issue and recommends users apply. OpenSSL Parsing Bug Causing DoS Denial of Service (DoS) is something that causes a legitimate service to crash due to malicious acts pushed by threat actors, with an aim of blocking the service even for legitimate users....

Exploiting the flaw A security researcher named Guido Vranken from ForAllSecure discovered this flaw, which was existing in OpenWrt devices for 3 years! It’s seen that OpenWrt installation files and updates were sent over unencrypted and insecure HTTP connections. Though passing over the insecure tunnel, these files were digitally signed to make them look legitimate. Yet, there’s a flaw. Before applying them, OpenWrt verifies these files’ integrity against an SHA-256 hash, where the two files should have a matched checksum....

Maybe, Facebook is not able to complete the year without any further security allegations. The company has been facing issues over users’ privacy and security from past years, and recent data theft of its own employees is now raising doubts about the company’s integrity and functioning methods. The Theft A person from the company’s payroll department was carrying hard drives containing information about employee names, the last four digits of employees’ social security numbers and bank account numbers of about 29,000 employees of Facebook....

WhatsApp Surpassed TikTok After Months Sensor Tower, the analytics company tracking the popularity of apps, has released a report where WhatsApp is the most downloaded app in November 2020. It tracks only the apps that are freshly downloaded and not the ones pre-installed. Based on this, here are the results. WhatsApp ranks top in the overall downloads with over 58 million installs in the last month alone. Most of these came from India, with over 30% downloads, and Nigeria at second, with 10% of downloads....

Citing this, the regulator, as per Russia’s Code of Administrative Offenses, fixed a penalty of 10% of Google’s total turnover in the country. This comes after the company was blamed for repeated offenses the same. Penalizing Google For Non-Compliance Google is one of the many companies against Russia in its war in Ukraine. The search giant was forced to file for bankruptcy in Russia due to its incapacity to run a business in the country after a series of fines and asset confiscation....

Russia’s Cloud Storage Shortage Ever since Russia started attacking Ukraine, many countries stepped in to thwart Russia with sanctions. These include ordering their respective tech companies to stop serving Russians and their government, which now started affecting the country gradually. As per a Kommersant, a Russian news outlet, Kremlin is rapidly running out of storage of cloud storage. The report stated that the Russian Ministry of Digital Transformation has reportedly held a meeting on March 9th, to discuss options on this issue with representatives of Sberbank, MTS, Oxygen, Rostelecom, Atom-Data, Croc, and Yandex....

Ryuk Gang Uses Binance and Huobi Ryuk ransomware is one of the prominent threat groups targeting companies all over the world, with the main focus on healthcare services. The malware group is one that uses the double-extortion strategy of stealing sensitive data before encrypting the target’s systems. This would help them force victims into paying the ransom better than just asking them to pay with a note. Since leaking the stolen data degrades the victim’s image, they’re more likely to pay the ransom, and this method has worked to date....

As per reports, Snapchat will feature Verishop Mini, a specially crafted Verishop shopping section in the Snapchat app to let users shop for branded items and purchases. Moreover, users can share them with others and also try some virtually to know better. Shopping in Snapchat With over 265 million active users, Snapchat for long has been a successful social chat platform in the heated-up messenger space. However, Generation Z users and millennials, who open the app 30 times a day on average, are mostly used by Generation Z users and millennials....

SonicWall Devices Have an RCE Bug SonicWall is a cybersecurity firm making networking products like VPNs and routers. On Wednesday, security researchers from Tripwire VERT have published a report about their discovery of a bug in SonicOS. The bug is tracked as CVE-2020-5135 impacting all devices running on SonicOS, like the SonicWall Network Security Appliance (NSA) devices. These devices include a range of appliances like the VPN portals, SSL filters, firewalls etc, that would allow employees to access the company’s network resources securely....

Calling this pull-out invalid and wrongful, Twitter stated that Musk is willfully trying to exit from the deal, resulting in a material breach. Also, they denied refusing to share any important information asked by Musk’s team, especially the spam bot count. Twitter Hits Back at Elon Musk Last Friday, Elon Musk’s team shared they’re dumping the Twitter acquisition deal worth $44 billion, citing a material breach by the social media company....

Three People Charged in Relation to Twitter Hack A 19-year old named Mason Sheppard from Bognor Regis, England faces three charges from the US Department of Justice. Also called as “Chaewon”, he was charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering, wire fraud and the intentional access of a protected computer in the Twitter’s high-profile accounts hack happened last month. Further, a 17-year old teen named Graham Ivan Clark from Tampa, Florida was also charged with counts on organized fraud, identity theft, communications fraud, and hacking....

QAnon Twitter Accounts Suspended QAnon, a theory that says Trump’s been fighting an unseen war against the pedophiles in all classes, has been violent for the last few days. After Trump directed his QAnon followers to barge into the US Capitol building to overturn his November elections, the group did so. Last week, a mob, majorly identified to be the group of QAnon, has struck the Capitol building. It was then recorded as one of the worst security breaches in America’s history, with four people dying in the incident....