Month: April 2021

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Security researchers have uncovered a batch of Google Play apps that stole users’ text messages and made unauthorized purchases on users’ dime.

The malware, which was hidden in eight apps that had more than 700,000 downloads, hijacked SMS message notifications and then made unauthorized purchases, McAfee mobile researchers Sang Ryol Ryu and Chanung Pak said Monday. McAfee is calling the malware Android/Etinu.

User data free for the taking

The researchers said an investigation of the attacker-operated server that controlled infected devices showed it stored all kinds of date from users' phones, including their mobile carrier, phone number, SMS messages, IP address, country, and network status. The server also stored auto-renewing subscriptions, some of which looked like this:

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  File under "You can't do this with 32-bit addressing": 1,600 projects and about 300,000 individual files open at once in VS 2022. [credit: Microsoft ]

Earlier today, Microsoft offered us a peek at Visual Studio 2022, which will offer its first public preview builds later this summer. If you're into the Visual Studio ecosystem, this looks like a killer upgrade.

Visual Studio enters the 64-bit world... finally

With Visual Studio 2022, you'll finally be able to take advantage of all of your system RAM. Earlier versions of Visual Studio are 32-bit applications, thereby hobbling VS to a maximum of 2GiB RAM.

The new VS2022 is fully 64-bit—without which the first GIF in the gallery above wouldn't be able to open a whopping 1,600 projects and roughly 300,000 files at once.