Month: July 2023
This new Android malware is draining bank accounts across the world – here’s what you need to know
A new malware campaign on Android has been discovered stealing people’s personally identifiable information (PII) and banking data, and in some cases, even stealing money from their bank accounts. As per a report by security expert Pol Thill, a threat actor known as Neo_Net has been targeting bank users worldwide…
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Ubisoft sees ‘major reduction’ in Rainbow Six Siege cheaters thanks to XIM detection
Ubisoft’s MouseTrap system for detecting cheaters in Rainbow Six Siege is already seeing results. Cheaters use devices like XIM to spoof controller inputs, and MouseTrap has now caused a “major reduction” of more than 70 percent in the amount of mouse and keyboard users on consoles. The team behind MouseTrap…
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Google confirms it’s training Bard on scraped web data, too
On Monday, Gizmodo spotted that the search giant updated its privacy policy to disclose that its various AI services, such as Bard and Cloud AI, may be trained on public data that the company has scraped from the web. “Our privacy policy has long been transparent that Google uses publicly…
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This new smartphone has more RAM and storage than a MacBook Air
Nubia recently announced the Red Magic 8S Pro and 8S Pro Plus, both of which have the potential to make it onto our rundown of the best gaming phones in 2023, on paper at least. But one of the headline features here isn’t to do with graphics or GPU performance,…
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Many companies aren’t prepared for darknet data leaks
Many businesses are woefully unprepared for having their sensitive data leak on the dark web, a new report from cybersecurity researchers Kaspersky has claimed. As per Kaspersky’s report, which analyzed a host of leaks and connected with the affected organizations last year, the company discovered sensitive data, belonging to 258…
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This environmentally conscious smartphone is finally coming to the US
The Fairphone 4 — a user-repairable smartphone built using ethically sourced materials — is finally coming to the US, almost two years after it first debuted back in September 2021. Well, sort of anyway. Fairphone is partnering with Murena, a company best known for de-Googling Android phones, to launch the…
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