 Huawei has already confirmed that it'll unveil a new batch of flagship smartphones, the P30 series, on March 26, 2019. Now, in what can only be described as a fairly unique marketing ploy, Huawei has started to reveal details about its as-yet-unannounced handsets ahead of the hotly-anticipated press conference next month. Huawei Vice President of Global Product Marketing Clement Wong has confirmed the P30 Pro will boast a new, periscope-style “superzoom” camera. Leaked images had already suggested the new flagship phone would include a 10x optical zoom feature akin to the system Oppo debuted at Mobile World Congress last month. Huawei Vice President Wong stopped short of confirming exactly what level of zoom customers can expect from the next handset, refusing to confirm the rumored 10x optical zoom functionality. However, Wong did tell AndroidCentral that the new periscope system would do “something nobody [has done] before," which could hint towards an even greater level of zoom than rival Oppo has managed, or could suggest Huawei has managed to squeeze a mechanical zooming lens onto the back of its next smartphone. Either way, we're very excited. Wong also promised the P30 series will bring improvements to night mode. According to the executive, the new solution will be able to go further than “software-only” systems favored by rivals – an extremely thinly-veiled jibe at the Night Sight feature rolled-out to the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL last year. Floow the upcoming launch of this amazing device on OUR FORUM.  The number of Android users attacked by banking malware saw an alarming 300% increase in 2018, with 1.8 million of them being impacted by at least one such attack during the last year. While in 2016 the overall number of attacked users was of 786,325 and during 2017 it dropped to 515,816, in April 2018 the number of attacks went on a severely increasing trend. The growth in the number of incidents reached the highest values during June and September, the year ending with an astounding 1,799,891 of users having been hit by at least one Android banking malware family. Out of the total number of Android users affected by financial malware, the highest percentage was found in Russia, South Africa, and the United States, while 85% of the attacks were conducted by bad actors using only three banking malware families. According to Kaspersky Lab's "Financial Cyber threats in 2018" report, "Asacub peaked more than twice to almost 60%, followed by Agent(14.28%) and Svpeng (13.31%). All three of them experienced explosive growth in 2018, especially Asacub as it peaked from 146,532 attacked users in 2017 to 1,125,258. While Asacub was also the top dog in the Android banking malware rankings in 2017, during 2018 this Android malware family was behind 58% of all detected attacks, more than doubling its "market share." For the full scope of this banking malware problem visit OUR FORUM.  Google recommends users of Windows 7 to give it up and move to Microsoft’s latest operating system if they want to keep systems safe from a zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild. The security bug affects Windows win32k.sys kernel driver and leads to privilege escalation on Windows 7. Google saw the Windows vulnerability in targeted attacks, chained with a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2019-5786) in Chrome browser that received a patch on March 1 with the release of version 72.0.3626.121. The kernel driver vulnerability could also serve for sandbox escaping when chained with other browser security faults, so Windows users could still be impacted even if they applied correctly the most recent update for Google Chrome. Exploitation of the vulnerability in the wild targeted Windows 7 systems. Google believes that this is the only version of the OS where it works because the exploit mitigations Microsoft introduced in the newer versions of OS, Windows 10 in particular, would prevent it. If you still run an older version of Windows, the recommendation is to upgrade to Windows 10 and keep it updated with the newest patches. “The vulnerability is a NULL pointer dereference in win32k!MNGetpItemFromIndex when NtUserMNDragOver() system call is called under specific circumstances,” writes Clement Lecigne, member of Google’s Threat Analysis Group. Further details are posted on OUR FORUM. |
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