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PUBG Mobile Is Adding Dinosaurs, And It Looks Awesome
The next PUBG Mobile update is probably not what you expected. The version 2.6 update, which releases on May 18, will add dinosaurs to the popular battle royale game.
The Dinoground event, as its called, runs until June 18. As part of it, players can find dinosaur settlements on the maps Erangel and Livik that are full of dinosaurs and supplies. Players can unlock and ride the velociraptors, pterosaurs, and T-Rex after taming them. Velociraptors can jump high to help you get up on tall surfaces, pterosaurs can fly you around the map and grab enemies with their talons, and the mega-powerful T-Rex can carry four people and deal a lot of damage. Check out the trailer below to see the creatures in action.
☝️ (°□°) “Update WHEN?!”
Version 2.6 launches May 18th (UTC+0)!
Get ready for the roar of the dinosaur & more ways to break the limit:
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— PUBG MOBILE (@PUBGMOBILE) May 16, 2023
There are dinosaur-themed minigames, too, including Pterosaur Hoops, which calls on players to ride the create and soar through hoops hanging from hot air balloons. The other minigame is called Velociraptor Jumping, and players need to ride the creatures and jump to high platforms to find treasure.
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Millions of Mobile Phones Come Pre-Infected With Malware, Say Researchers
The objective of the malware is to steal info or make money from information collected or delivered. The malware turns the devices into proxies which are used to steal and sell SMS messages, take over social media and online messaging accounts, and used as monetization opportunities via adverts and click fraud. One type of plugin, proxy plugins, allow the criminal to rent out devices for up to around five minutes at a time. For example, those renting the control of the device could acquire data on keystrokes, geographical location, IP address and more. “The user of the proxy will be able to use someone else’s phone for a period of 1200 seconds as an exit node,” said Yarochkin. He also said the team found a Facebook cookie plugin that was used to harvest activity from the Facebook app.
Through telemetry data, the researchers estimated that at least millions of infected devices exist globally, but are centralized in Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe. A statistic self-reported by the criminals themselves, said the researchers, was around 8.9 million. As for where the threats are coming from, the duo wouldn’t say specifically, although the word “China” showed up multiple times in the presentation, including in an origin story related to the development of the dodgy firmware. Yarochkin said the audience should consider where most of the world’s OEMs are located and make their own deductions.
The team confirmed the malware was found in the phones of at least 10 vendors, but that there was possibly around 40 more affected. For those seeking to avoid infected mobile phones, they could go some way of protecting themselves by going high end. That is to say, you’ll find this sort of bad firmware in the cheaper end of the Android ecosystem, and sticking to bigger brands is a good idea though not necessarily a guarantee of safety. “Big brands like Samsung, like Google took care of their supply chain security relatively well, but for threat actors, this is still a very lucrative market,” said Yarochkin.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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