A flash alert published on Thursday by the FBI warns of an increase in malware-enabled ATM jackpotting attacks in the United States. According to the agency, roughly 1,900 ATM jackpotting attacks have been reported since 2020, with more than 700 in 2025 alone. The incidents recorded last year resulted in losses exceeding $20 million. ATM jackpotting attacks involve physical access to the targeted machine to plant malware that instructs its cash-dispensing module to eject currency. The US has cracked down on ATM jackpotting, prosecuting dozens of individuals for various roles in such operations. Many of the suspects targeted by the…
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Summary This ESP32 S3 4G smartphone prototype handles voice calls, a 2MP camera, and a 3000mAh battery, with SMS features coming soon. It uses an A7682E SIMCom modem with AT commands + lovyangfx; runs via custom Arduino IDE. The code will be FOSS soon; expect the community to grab it and build ESP32 phones. The ESP32 community is really creative. Like, really creative. Every week, there’s at least one cool new project that someone has worked hard on, complete with open-source code and a full guide on how to make it at home. But sometimes, something incredible comes around, and…
Ravie LakshmananFeb 20, 2026Financial Crime / Banking Security The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned of an increase in ATM jackpotting incidents across the country, leading to losses of more than $20 million in 2025. The agency said 1,900 ATM jackpotting incidents have been reported since 2020, out of which 700 took place last year. In December 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said about $40.73 million has been collectively lost to jackpotting attacks since 2021. “Threat actors exploit physical and software vulnerabilities in ATMs and deploy malware to dispense cash without a legitimate transaction,” the FBI…
Digital marketing teams have long debated the balance between SEO and PPC. Who owns the keyword? Who gets the budget? Who proves ROI most effectively? For years, the division felt clear. SEO optimized for organic rankings, while paid media optimized for auctions. Both fought for visibility on the same results page, but operated under fundamentally different mechanics and incentives. ChatGPT ads are beginning to erase that line. The separation between organic and paid isn’t just blurring, it’s breaking down inside conversational AI. The new battleground isn’t the SERP. It’s the prompt. The intersection of PPC and SEO now lives inside…
Any time you add a new person to a group chat, they can’t see the previous messages. So, they lack context about what’s already discussed and what everyone is talking about. WhatsApp is looking to solve this problem with its latest feature: Group Message History. The feature does exactly what its name suggests: it allows a new participant in a group chat to view past conversations. This way, they can quickly catch up on what’s being discussed and add their input. For privacy reasons, WhatsApp will limit how far back newly added members can view past messages. They will not…
Operation Red Card 2.0, supported by INTERPOL and involving law enforcement agencies from 16 African countries, led to 651 arrests and the recovery of more than $4.3 million from online scams. In Nigeria police took down a fraud ring that used phishing, identity theft and social engineering to scam victims (Source: Interpol) Running from 8 December 2025 to 30 January 2026, the operation targeted networks behind high-yield investment fraud, mobile money scams and fraudulent loan applications that caused more than $45 million in losses. Investigators identified 1,247 victims, most of them in Africa, seized 2,341 devices and shut down 1,442…
Andy Walker / Android AuthorityTL;DR Samsung’s new Bixby experience is made official for the second time, with the company confirming a One UI 8.5 launch. The upgraded Bixby virtual assistant supports better natural language understanding, agentic device management tools, and real-time web access. One UI 8.5 is expected to be announced alongside the Samsung Galaxy S26 series at an Unpacked event next week. Samsung published and subsequently deleted a newsroom post announcing a new Bixby experience for One UI 8.5 last month powered, in part, by a Perplexity integration. The upgraded Bixby version was said to include better natural language…
Google says that through 2025, it blocked more than 255,000 Android apps from obtaining excessive access to sensitive user data and rejected over 1.75 million apps from being published on Google Play due to policy violations. The tech giant’s annual review of Android and Google Play security reveals how effective the implemented protection measures were in maintaining an ecosystem with honest developers and compliant apps. “We’re constantly improving our policies and protections to encourage safe, high-quality apps on Google Play and stop bad actors before they cause harm,” Google says. To this end, the company implemented more than 10,000 safety checks on…
In January, Alphabet passed Apple in market capitalization to become the second most valuable company in the world. Alphabet was worth $3.885 trillion. Apple sat at $3.846 trillion. Only Nvidia, at $4.595 trillion, was ahead. That alone would be news. But the context makes it something else entirely. Courts had found that Google violated antitrust law in both general search services and general search text advertising. The Department of Justice asked judges to break the company apart, sell off Chrome, divest the Android operating system, and force the sale of its ad exchange. In the search case, the court rejected…