It is an enticing, self-evolving malware spotted in October 2016, which has never stopped evolving to a more dangerous format. The first initial version came with banking Trojan capabilities to collate and send data to the masters operating it. The newer malware stains are sure to make many security experts go in a frenzy. Why Is It So Deadly And What Does It Attack The trojan crypts and targets the OpenSSH and OpenVPN applications as has been cited by the esteemed researchers at the Palo Alto Networks’ who saw the effects on a compromised 64-bit Windows 7 device in the month of November....

Marcus Hutchins’ arrest back in 2017 has stunned the computer security community. He acknowledged a statement that pleads guilty about his actions back in 2014 and 2015. 24-year old Hutchins is also known as MalwareTech stated that he regrets these actions and noted that these charges were imposed on him for his activity prior to his work in the security. He further added that he has been using the same skills for some years and at some point, he misused the same....

Cryptomining is a new form of robbery. Implanting the malicious miner somehow will lead to persistent income until the victim detects and vanishes it. Adversaries often look for higher powered systems that have GPUs, as these do more minting and garner much. And what could be a better machine that’s dedicated to Machine Learning? Networks like Kubernetes clusters are desirable as they have more computational power. Targeting ML Kubernetes For Cryptomining As Microsoft reported today, they’ve found tens of Kubernetes clusters running Kubeflow being targeted for Cryptomining....

With the launch of MIUI 12 last week, Xiaomi has taken the love for its bloatware to the next level. Apart from features like polished animations, privacy modes, etc, Xiaomi has also introduced a notable update called Super Wallpapers. These are the next level of Live Wallpapers, where you’d be seeing the space view of a planet on lock screen mode, and zoomed in to aerial view when unlocked. Well, you can even go deeper to view the ground view too....

Some of these include a new power control option to wake the Shield devices, a developer option to force the Dolby Vision Low Latency, resolving bugs in automatic game mode, etc. All these are packed in the new Experience 9.1.1 update. Nvidia Shield Experience Update To the unknown, Nvidia doesn’t only make GPUs for PCs but also a range of other hardware usable by regular people. One among them is the Shield TV streaming devices, similar to Google’s Chromecast or Roku bundles....

OnePlus 8 and 8 Pro Specifications:- Starting with OnePlus 8, the handset is about 6.55″ FHD+ display with 90Hz refresh rate. Further, it’s claimed to be possessing a punch-hole AMOLED display style. This is even shared by the Pro version of this series, except the fact that it upgrades to 6.78″ QHD+ display with 120Hz refresh rate. Both the phones will be sharing the same chipset beneath as Snapdragon 865, which by default has an X50 modem for supporting 5G!...

The battery, if dual celled, can get upto 50% charge in the first five minutes itself! Oppo said that the next OnePlus flagship phone would get this support when launched. Also, the Chinese company has tested a 240W fast charging tech to charge the same battery in just nine minutes! Oppo’s 150W SuperVOOC Flash Charge This year’s MWC event is going to be a rollercoaster. The tech giants that shelved several innovative technologies developed in the past months are now boasting them in the grand event....

In an email notification sent to the users’, Plex noted suspicious activity on their databases yesterday. While they didn’t mention any identifiable details of those who had accessed it, Plex immediately rectified the issue and started informing the community. Among those details leaked include the PII of users except the credit card data. Data Breach at Plex When you have loads of media playing in your local library, Plex is something you should have to properly organize and stream....

Reddit Accounts Hacked to Support Trump With the presidential elections of 2020 nearing by, attacks on social media platforms have increased significantly. This made people normal about experiencing any cyberattacks or malicious campaigns similar to 2016 in Cambridge Analytica. Yet, Google and Facebook have issued regular statements on how they’re avoiding such incidents. But, it happens with the Reddit this time. The short blogging platform and community platform have seen a socially engineered attack that happened yesterday night, where dozens of popular subreddits were hacked to post pro-Trump posts....

This is the second time this year the company is cutting jobs, citing similar reasons. Robinhood’s CEO said the firing would mostly happen at its operations, marketing, and program management departments, and the concerned employees will be notified via Slack and email soon. Laying Off Employees at Robinhood For the second time in a year, Robinhood is laying off employees, citing the record growth of inflation, cryptocurrency crash, and degrading macroeconomic environment....

This is reasoned by the shortage of components, especially the chipset, which drove prices of handsets high during the period. The OEM standings remain the same compared to last year, with Samsung still being the top. Altogether, the industry has moved over 327 million units in Q3 of 2021. Decreased Smartphone Shipments The smartphone industry is one of the rapidly growing markets in the hardware technology space, until last year when the pandemic hit....

While its managers are estimating the scope of layoffs across the departments, it’s believed that Snapchat is gearing up for this decision more due to the poor Q2 earnings it released recently. Though the platform is a hit among youngsters, it’s struggling to build a proper revenue model. Snapchat is Firing Employees Though Snapchat seems to be a profitable company in the social media ecosystem, it’s one of the many cash-burning platforms spending heavily to stay afloat....

Sony Completes Acquisition of Crunchyroll Last year in December, Sony has first announced the deal of acquiring Crunchyroll. The company wants to see Crunchyroll join Funimation, which is the existing anime streaming property of Sony. Crunchyroll will be combined with Sony’s Funimation, a joint venture between SPE and Sony Music Entertainment’s Aniplex Inc. Earlier, Crunchyroll said that it has 5 million streaming subscribers and has 120 million registered users across different countries and territories....

And the time has come, as Dbrand removed its so-called Darkplates from the store as it received a cease and desist order from Sony to do so. Though Dbrand pulled them off accordingly, it seems to have other ideas as mentioned in a specific company’s post. Dbrand’s Darkplates Are No More As Sony made removing the sideplates of PlayStation 5 easy, even demonstrated how to do it, many grew intrest in replacing them with third-party creative sideplates....

More than 90% of Androids are Vulnerable Android malware sneaks easily, and often hard to be detected. StrandHogg 2.0 is one such malware that’s been infecting Android phones for stealing data. Researchers from Promon have described this malware can affect Androids dating back to Honeycomb (v3) to Android Pie (v9). Well, researchers aren’t sure that Android 10 users are safe tho. Upon finding the vulnerability it’s exploiting, researchers have informed Google for elimination....

Not just interception, but also manipulating. Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry, two developers who first revealed this issue, has also detailed in their blog. The due claims the vulnerability in TikTok lies with its transportation of content via an unsecured protocol called HTTP. This was later developed to HTTPS (S stands for Secure) for being more secure. Usage of HTTP may let the content pass faster but at the cost of the app’s security....

Twitter’s New Warning Label For Hacking Twitter is one of the popular platforms that’s fighting hard to eradicate misinformation. It has earlier introduced warning labels on sensitive content like COVID-19 and the US elections to avoid people making decisions on unverified information, even though it’s from relevant people and authorities. Now, it has introduced warning labels on tweets sharing hacking-related information. It starts displaying these labels if the stories are deemed to have any content obtained from hacking or leaked data....

The survey also had questions like whether they think their phones often hear what they’re talking about and how intrusive are the targeted ads from businesses. Many had voted negative for such questions, displaying their disgust on rising technology. Survey on Tech Companies With the rise of new technologies and their usage awareness, many are hopping into this realm rapidly than ever before. And this only leads to two things – more data and concerns on how companies are handling it....

While there’s no proper revealing yet, we speculate this to be sub-groups within a parent group and will let those who’re involved chat among themselves, publicly. This is helpful in the case of Channels, where the admin only gets to send messages. WhatsApp Community Feature Comparing with other IMs, WhatsApp is definitely slow in rolling out new features to the community. Rivals like Telegram and Signal are picking up with community-asked needs, and luring both new and existing WhatsApp users to their platform....

End-to-end Encryption is a protocol followed by many instant messengers to safeguard their users’ conversations from being intercepted by unwanted parties. While this is desired by everyone, law enforcement agencies from the UK, US, and Australia are fighting against those app makers to set an unwarranted encryption method (like backdoors) for authorities to help them crack the online spam and abuse. A Major Hit Coming By In the latest move of this debate, the EARN-IT bill which is passing through the US Legislative to be approved will be the biggest weapon from Senators saying Aye!...