Thousands of routers and cameras vulnerable because of two new 0-day vulnerabilities
Cybersecurity researchers from Akamai discovered an active malware campaign that is using two zero-day vulnerabilities with remote code execution functionality to rope routers and video recorders into a Mirai-based distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet. Akamai said it has reported the vulnerabilities to manufacturers, and that one of them has provided assurances security patches will be released next month.
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Broadcom has finalised the $69 billion acquisition of VMware
This acquisition, one of the largest in the technology sector, faced intense scrutiny from global regulators before receiving the final clearance from China. Broadcom’s president said they were excited to bring together their teams to build “the world’s leading infrastructure technology company”.
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Amazon’s acquisition of iRobot is likely to get approval from the European Union
Reuters wrote that EU regulators will unconditionally approve the $1.4 billion deal, after previously expressing concerns that it could let Amazon restrict competition in the robot vacuum cleaner market. The European Commission is due to decide on the deal by February 14.
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Microsoft launched the Defender Bounty Program
The program is aimed at finding vulnerabilities in Defender-related products and services, and is offering participants the possibility to earn up to $20,000 for the most critical bugs. This program comes just weeks after Microsoft launched a similar initiative for Bing.
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New products
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Realme GT 5 Pro
Realme GT 5 Pro will have a 6.78-inch OLED screen, Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor, up to 24 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage. It will be launched on December 7.
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Red Magic 9 Pro
The phone has a 6.8-inch Full HD+ OLED display, Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 processor, 8GB, 12GB, 16GB, or 24GB of RAM and up to 1TB of storage. It comes with a 6500mAh battery.
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