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Observing the ongoing lawsuit, PrimeWire is preparing for its survival after the potential takedowns from rights holders. A group of movie studios has earlier filed a lawsuit against PrimeWire , alleging the pirate operations the platform is serving. As they have now obtained the preliminary injunction for seizing the active PrimeWire domains, the pirate site’s operators have started advertising a new indexing portal for its survival later. A New PrimeWire Site For Status Check PrimeWire is one of the popular pirate sites serving copyrighted content, for almost free....

Ragnar Locker ransomware has leaked the data stolen from Belgium’s Zwijndrecht police, which now affects thousands of people in that locality. The leaked data contains vehicle number plates, crime reports, PII, investigation reports, etc. Zwijndrecht police responded to the media, saying that it was a human error, and are informing the concerned persons. People affected by this leak are advised to change their sensitive records for good. Hitting Police Instead of a Municipality The current leak regarding Zwijndrecht police was actually aimed at the Zwijndrecht municipality, but the Ragnar Locker gang instead hit the local police in their process....

Following disappointing hardware sales and response from the community, Razer decided to end support for its Theme Store by August 24th, 2022. The Razer Theme Store is the house for all custom themes made for Razer phones that give a big visual overhaul to the device. Now, since it’s shutting down, Razer urged users to download whatever themes they like and set them up. End of Razer Theme Store One of the few brands we have in the gaming smartphone segment is Razer – a company that dipped its feet into the smartphone business after acquiring Nextbit – a smartphone maker....

The popular data breach notification service – Have I Been Pwned has added over 441,000 email IDs from the RedLine dump, to let users search for their compromised status. RedLine is an information-stealing malware that collects senstive data from users’ browsers. Last week, a server containing over 6 million records was exposed, belonging to RedLine. Verifying it, there are over 441K unique email IDs that surfaced, which are now added to Have I Been Pwned....

RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) which is in an everlasting pursuit of fighting against infringements of US artists works, has a new target in its hitlist: Wi.to. Wi.to is a music-only sharing a platform with no heavy UI and looks bare dead. But, it’s fairly popular for sharing audio content. It’s now accused by RIAA for being a platform for sharing their copyrighted materials without permission. RIAA Slams Music Service Wi....

Sabrent, one of the many companies that are racing to launch a PCIe 5 SSD – has announced its upcoming card, Rocket X5 can deliver upto 14Gbps speeds! This is the maximum processing speed of PCIe Gen 5 SSDs – thus placing any hardware that can hit this speed at the top of the line. Well, there are chances that it may be limited by supply chain issues since all the 3D NAND manufacturers that make 2400MTps chips are suffering to produce chips in mass quantities....

To excel in research and innovation of advanced chips, Samsung on Friday announced a fresh $15 billion worth investment into a new chip research complex in South Korea. The new establishment will be set up at its Giheung campus in Seoul, the same location where Samsung made the world’s first 64MB DRAM in 1992. Hoping to overcome the semiconductor scaling issues and better its niche in this industry, Samsung said it’ll complete this new facility by 2028....

In a press release yesterday, Singapore’s ministry of defence (MINDEF) and Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) personnel reported that the data containing sensitive details of their army personnel have been compromised with respect to their data vendors of HMI Institute and ST Logistics. 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....

SNAKE ransomware operators, who have attacked the Honda group last week, has also attacked the Enel group now. Enel is an energy company having its operations across Europe and informs to be attacked ransomware last week. While the attack was unsuccessful, it’s still unknown how the attack has happened and whether it had stolen any data or not. Evaded Risk by Acting Early Enel Company is a multi-national energy supplier spread across Europe and has reported being targeted by a ransomware attack last week....

Following the suite of other social media and messenger apps, Snapchat today confirmed that it’s working on a premium subscription to its platform. Named the Snapchat Plus, the official pricing of this isn’t revealed yet. Yet, the Snapchat spokesperson said that premium users will have access to early and experimental features, plus some special abilities like pinning chats to the top and changing Snapchat icons. Snapchat Premium Subscription Last week, we saw Telegram’s CEO unveiled plans for a premium version of their platform coming later this month....

Researchers at Trend Micro have documented a botnet named TeamTNT, which is stealing Docker credentials now . TeamTNT infects the hosts through exposed Docker APIs and installs cryptocurrency miners for mining coins. Also, it steals AWS credentials besides earning cryptocurrencies. An Upgraded TeamTNT Botnet TeamTNT , a cryptocurrency mining botnet that exploits Docker APIs to gain access into victims’ servers. It was first noted by Trend Micro researchers in mid-2020, who detailed it’s activities as it cashes on misconfigured Docker APIs, to get in and install cryptocurrency mining software for earning the coins....

Telegram is a fairly popular instant messenger and an archive of WhatsApp. Although it started small, Telegram has grown rapidly over the last few years, mainly among teens, businesses, and the tech world. This is because its makers have been adding more functionalities to the platform, making it more appealing. Some of these include flexibility, no limits on the number of participants for a channel, a maximum cap for groups, no cap on media transfer, automated bots, color/theme changes, disappearing messages, and secret chats....

Telegram is one of the finest instant messengers with open source apps, great encryption for chats/calls, bots etc. Ever since its inception, Telegram is rapidly developing and introducing new features to compete against WhatsApp and WeChat. Here are cool improvements introduced in its new version 1.) Theme Editor As always, Telegram is perfect for universal editings. Now you can edit the theme colour of Main Color, Background and My Messages. Editing here is not just from the default colours, but your made-up ones from the gradient!...

Several users are reporting the inaccessibility of The Pirate Bay main domain, which has been down for over two days. While this is unknown, this should be considered a normal technical issue rather than a shutdown since we haven’t heard about any law enforcement raids. Although, the Tor version and several other proxy sites of The Pirate Bay are up and running. Unknown Downtime of The Pirate Bay As The Pirate Bay is one of the prominent torrent sites globally, it’s no wonder that law enforcement is often targeted....

Image via Flickr Once upon a time, there was a Swiss company called Crypto AG which produced top-notch encryption devices to let nations communicate securely with their spies, soldiers and diplomats across the globe. And until WSJ reported , it’s believed the firm’s products were in really secured. But now, as per WSJ, the firm Crypto AG was owned by two major intelligence agencies the world, US and Germany!...

Days after pausing several domestic departures, the FAA is now revealing why it has to do so after a full investigation. And it’s apparently because some of its contractors had deleted NOTAM system files accidentally, causing delays or cancellations of several flights in the US. These include some of the military flights, too, that forced the pilots to call around directly to get their necessary operational details. Accidentally Deleting System Files Earlier this week, the Federal Aviation Administration grounded severe domestic flights due to an internal error pertaining to NOTAM....

The story of the FBI catching hundreds of criminals through a honeypot messaging app has a new turn now. As criminals realized that their phones were tracked by the FBI, they soon dumped them on online marketplaces, which several users now bring at a bargain. And they’re now struggling with the new OS and pre-installed apps – controlled by the FBI. This led online forums to flood with help requests on how to tune these phones – Pixel 4a and Pixel 3a mostly, accordingly....

Akamai NetSession client is a program that comes pre-installed with your PC or laptop or even bundled with the application you are trying to download from the internet. It claims to boost the download speed and increase the overall rate of the downloading time, especially when you are on a slower connection. Many users have no clue about what it is and what it does. This often makes them anxious about its functionality and actual need....

Years after developing, WhatsApp finally announced its first major commercial API service to let businesses communicate with their customers in a formal way. The service charges businesses on a per-message basis, with the first 1,000 messages free per month. It lets businesses and developers create custom dashboards, ith the basic one coming with required analytics and trackers. Meta says this Cloud-based API is aimed at all types of businesses around the world....

WhatsApp has updated its Windows desktop client to add group video calling support and the multi-device function. These are some of the most awaited features on the WhatsApp Desktop app, almost putting the client on par with its mobile counterparts. Users can now video call up to 8 people and voice call up to 32 people – all end-to-end encrypted. WhatsApp Group Calling on Desktop Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced an updated WhatsApp client for the Windows desktop – that has performance improvements and better calling features....