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Sonos sues Google for infringing 5 more non-wire A.K.A Wireless audio patents

 Sonos has filed another patent lawsuit against Google, alleging that giant search infringes five wireless patents across the Nest and Chromecast product line. The move comes on the eve of Google's hardware hardware event on September 30, with the announcement of the Chromecast and Nest smart speaker and new Pixel phones. Sonos filed its first patent lawsuit against Google in January in a California court and the International Trade Commission; The state lawsuit was suspended while the ITC reached a decision on whether to block Google products that allegedly violated market rules. The new lawsuit was filed only in a federal court in the Western District of Texas - a recent patent for a patent case - and it represents an aggressive approach from Sonos. "We think it's important to show the depth and breadth of Google's copy," said Eddie Lazarus, a law officer at Sonos. "We showed them the 100 patent charts which we said were infringing, all to no avail." G...

Researchers Uncover Cyber Espionage Operation Aimed At Indian Army (INDIA)

   Cybersecurity investigators have found new evidence of an ongoing cyberespionage campaign against Indian defense units and military personnel at least since 2019 with the aim of stealing sensitive information. Named the "Operation SideCopy" of the Indian company Quick Heal, the attack was aimed at the main threat team (APT) that managed to stay under the radar by "copying" the tactics of other threatening actors like SideWinder. Exploiting the Microsoft Equation Editor error The start of the campaign is an embedded email attachment - either with a ZIP file containing an LNK file or a Microsoft Word document - that triggers a series of infections through a series of steps to download the final payment. In addition to identifying three different chains of infection, it is noteworthy that one of them used a template injection with a Microsoft Equation Editor error (CVE-2017-11882), a 20-year-old memory corruption problem at Microsoft Office, which, when used succes...