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Researchers at SentinelLabs discovered a new threat actor that’s highly sophisticated in its operations – leaving no trace by using its malware in the system memory. They named it Metador and its associated Windows malware ‘metaMain’ and ‘Mafalda’, which can take tens of commands to perform. They noted the threat actor targeting telecom companies, internet providers, and universities in the Middle East, with the aim of long-term espionage. Metador Group Dissection SentinelLabs researchers spotted a new threat actor lurking in the networks of ISPs, telecoms, and universities for months, for probably long-term espionage....

As per TechCrunch, the SoftBank-backed Indian hotel chain Oyo is about to find a new investor – Microsoft. People familiar with the matter said a deal between these two can be closed by Friday and may involve Oyo shifting its infrastructure to Microsoft’s cloud services as a part of the deal. Microsoft to Acquire Stake in Oyo Oyo, the budget hotel chain hailing from India, is reportedly in advanced talks with Microsoft, the American software giant which earlier acquired a handful of Indian startups....

Microsoft Teams is one of the productivity technologies that rose to prominence amid remote working due to the COVID-19 breakout. As millions of people rely on it every day, Microsoft is bringing its native video conferencing solution to the mainstream by setting a chat shortcut in Windows 11 Taskbar. Microsoft Teams in Windows 11 Last year’s COVID breakout has forced everyone to remote working. And this new norm of work-from-home is being liked by employees so much that many are voting for its continuation even after the pandemic ends....

After receiving backlash from the open-source community, Microsoft is now reversing the decision of removing a key feature from the .NET v6 framework. The .NET 6 is expected to release next month, but earlier touted to come without a key part in Hot Reload. This angered the community since many hoped for using it to modify the code. But this was locked to Visual Studio 2022, which is a paid software....

Microsoft is reportedly planning to add a new audio standard, AAC, to its Bluetooth in Windows 10. This will help users’ having AAC-supported wireless headphones to get lossy audio output. Also, it will not avoid showing different options for a single Bluetooth in the Taskbar and merge them all into one. All these updates will be coming to Windows 10 in its next update. AAC Support in Windows 10 Microsoft has embedded most industry audio codecs into Windows 10 but is not having the new Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) yet....

Earlier today, an unknown hacker group going by the name John Wick has hacked Indian Prime Minister’s sub-account. The account titled as narendra_modi is about the website of Prime Minister’s, and post tweets regularly. This was hacked to post a series of tweets asking followers to donate cryptocurrency to a Bitcoin wallet as a Relief Fund. Narendra Modi’s Website Twitter Account Hacked! While Indians are digesting the ban of PUBG and other Chinese apps since yesterday, they’ve got one more interesting topic to talk about....

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In order to bar China from modernizing its military equipment, the US has passed a new law to restrict the US chip makers from exporting certain items to China. This would affect Nvidia and AMD grossly, as they export a couple of high-selling GPUs to China that may be used in their regular businesses or military often. These companies are now forced to obtain a license from the US government to export these cards....

While the OnePlus 8T Cyberpunk 2077 Edition has only launched for Chinese customers, it’s glad that we’re getting at least the wallpapers of it. A user from XDA developers has tweaked the softwares to extract some OnePlus 8T Cyberpunk only wallpapers, sounds, and animations to be usable on other Android phones. Download OnePlus 8T Cyberpunk 2077 Wallpapers Continuing the tradition, OnePlus has partnered with the game Cyberpunk 2077 to make a special edition smartphone of its OnePlus 8T and was launched only in China ....

UK’s National Cyber Crime Unit has found exposed cloud storage leaking a database worth 586 million sets of credentials, which are having mixed sources. As they’re unable to find how they were compromised or to whom it belonged, they submitted the entire database to Have I Been Pwnd for good. While everyone in the world can now check for their compromised credentials in HIBP, this latest data submission reveals more astonishing facts....

Cloud Gaming on PlayStation 5 “We’re currently testing cloud streaming for supported PS5 games – this includes PS5 titles from the PlayStation Plus Game Catalog and Game Trials, as well as supported digital PS5 titles that players own” This lets eligible players try the games on their supported consoles without downloading them, making it easy. Sony already has a handheld device called “ Project Q ” with a similar purpose, but it isn’t a hit already....

ProctorU , an online invigilation software has now disclosed a data breach, after a hacking group leaked its stolen files. ProctorU confirmed the breach via Twitter in response to a student newspaper and said the database has no financial information but emails, phone numbers, hashed passwords, etc of about half a million students from renowned Universities. ProctorU Confirmed Data Breach ProctorU is an invigilation software that checks for cheating in an online exam....

The second edition of the Pwn2Own event this year has successfully ended, with researchers and security firms raking in over $1 million in rewards. The participants have successfully compromised NAS devices, routers, printers, and mobile phones. Overall, there were about 60 zero-day vulnerabilities surfaced in the whole event, by exploiting known and unknown flaws. Pwn2Own Event 2021 Highlights The second iteration of Pwn2Own 2021 came to an end this week, where the focus was directed against routers, printers, NAS devices, and phones....

On the first day of the Pwn2Own event this year, contestants successfully hacked the Samsung Galaxy S22 device twice for a total reward of $75,000 and some Matter of Pwn points. They have found an exploit to validate the device for access – even though it’s running on the latest Android OS with all updates installed. Well, this device will be put up for hacking again on the second day of the event to find more exploits....

Researchers from a German university found a way to decode the encrypted VoLTE calls. The flaw lies in the system of mobile towers, where the mobile operators use same encryption key or predictable key for most of their 4G calls, which can be used by an attacker to decrypt the victim’s previous calls. A patch for this ReVoLTE attack has been applied by German operators, but still exists in world operators....

Sodinokibi ransomware, also known as REvil group has now upgraded to encrypt even the locked files. This was seen by Intel471 researchers in Sodinokibi’s new update, version 2.2, where the ransomware leverages Windows Restart Manager API to shut down Windows services that lock files during this encryption. Updated Version 2.2 REvil Ransomware 2.2 Sodinokibi ransomware is a Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS), that’s being kept and developed by a group of creators and sold to other hackers....

RobbinHood is a pioneer in its space. The infamous ransomware group has caused enough havoc to cities like Baltimore, Greenville, Maryland and North Carolina in past, costing them millions of dollars. The group’s prime targets are organizations rather than simply individuals, as the former cater more funds than latter. One if top ransomware groups! RobbinHood is one of the most wanted entities is the space of ransomware, followed by Locky, Cerber, Maze , WannaCry , Ryuk groups....

While Samsung is having a great time in the smartphone hardware making space, it’s struggling to keep its native apps alive. Samsung said it’s shutting down yet another app called S Translator on December 1st, 2020 . This service aimed to provide translation services to its users and be an alternative to Google’s and Microsoft translator apps. It is also said to delete the user data collected immediately. Samsung’s S Translator Will be Shut Down Soon Commonly, makers kill their underperforming offerings....

Spotify is found to be testing a new subscription – Spotify Plus – that’s far cheaper than the current $10 a month plan. As per reports, the new super-cheap plan costs just $0.99 a month but runs ads in between to suffice its profits. This is still a value for many, and considering the growing competition, Spotify should introduce such plans to touch all community tiers. Spotify’s New Cheaper Plan Usually, businesses make out new plans to withstand the growing competition....

Researchers at Group-IB reported a new dump shared in an underground forum belonging to Swarmshop, a carding data portal. The data leaked has over 12,000 records of Swarmshop users and admins, containing their names, hashed passwords, contact details, and active histories. Further, it contained over 623K card details and banking credentials sold in Swarmshop. Swarmshop Data Leak Started in mid-2019, Swarmshop is a fairly popular underground marketplace for buying and selling stolen card data....