Month: July 2022

Russia’s competition watchdog fined Alphabet’s Google RUB 2 billion (roughly Rs. 260 crore) on Tuesday for abusing its dominant position in the video hosting market, the regulator said in a statement. The decision is the latest multi-million dollar fine as part of Moscow’s increasingly assertive campaign against foreign tech companies. The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) said
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Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Mittal’s remuneration fell nearly five percent in the financial year 2021-22 to Rs. 15.39 crore on lower perquisite value, according to the telecom company’s annual report. The gross remuneration of the telecom industry stalwart and Airtel’s top honcho stood at Rs. 16.19 crore in the year 2020-21. While Mittal’s salary and
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An information-stealing malware called Amadey is being distributed by means of another backdoor called SmokeLoader. The attacks hinge on tricking users into downloading SmokeLoader that masquerades as software cracks, paving the way for the deployment of Amadey, researchers from the AhnLab Security Emergency Response Center (ASEC) said in a report published last week. Amadey, a
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An unknown Chinese-speaking threat actor has been attributed to a new kind of sophisticated Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) firmware rootkit called CosmicStrand. “The rootkit is located in the firmware images of Gigabyte or ASUS motherboards, and we noticed that all these images are related to designs using the H81 chipset,” Kaspersky researchers said in
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Three Chinese astronauts aboard the country’s space station, currently under construction, successfully entered the lab module in orbit for the first time on Monday, a day after the space laboratory was launched, according to the China Manned Space Agency. China launched its space laboratory called Wentian on Sunday, sending the country’s largest-ever spacecraft into Earth’s
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