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[00:00:12] It is Military Scout Day in Russia. Defense Minister Andrei Belousov congratulated
[00:00:16] servicemen and veterans, noting that at all times scouts
[00:00:19] honorably performed their duty. The head of the department is confident that the traditions
[00:00:22] will be preserved and the skill of scouts will
[00:00:24] grow.
[00:00:27] In India, there are casualties from Cyclone Murasu. Bad weather has been
[00:00:30] attacking the state
[00:00:33] of Andhra Pradesh for several days now. Hundreds of houses, crops on an area
[00:00:36] of more than 5,000 hectares, have also been
[00:00:39] destroyed.
[00:00:44] Let's go back to the holiday of Russian military scouts. Units celebrate it
[00:00:48] at the front, in the rear, at training grounds. Elizaveta
[00:00:51] Bukreeva visited the
[00:00:52] training.
[00:00:56] Scouts of the northern group silently approach...
[00:01:30] some signal. All possible entrances and exits from the shelter
[00:01:33] are controlled by a sniper. He accompanies the group
[00:01:37] as a mandatory measure and
[00:01:39] takes up position.
[00:01:43] Maximum camouflage should be on the guys. The task is to literally
[00:01:46] blend in with the terrain, for this they use improvised
[00:01:49] materials. Grass, branches, earth. Today
[00:01:52] becoming a chameleon is not required, and John works light, usually the fighters have
[00:01:56] a backpack with the most necessary things, for example, an anti-drone blanket,
[00:01:59] a supply of food and water, it happens that a raid can
[00:02:03] take literally a minute or two, but it also happens
[00:02:06] that you have to sit in an ambush for several days.
[00:02:09] Fighters of the 74th separate reconnaissance battalion act
[00:02:13] without words, there are reasons for this in dialogue, the enemy can
[00:02:16] use a code word to call for reinforcements. There are also
[00:02:20] knocks, and there are also bells, in some
[00:02:23] moments the radios are in their hands. Baikal knows about the tricks in the AFU
[00:02:27] in the ranks of the forty-fourth. Army Corps
[00:02:30] has been serving for the second year, has been in different directions, now he is performing
[00:02:34] tasks in Sumy, notes that the enemy is demoralized,
[00:02:38] we immediately take positions, they, that is, either leave positions,
[00:02:41] run away, or surrender, in some places we entered,
[00:02:45] people did not even know how to hold an automatic rifle, our guys at training even on
[00:02:48] their professional holiday, the legend of the exercise is worked out to an A+,
[00:02:52] the enemy is captured, important documents are in the hands of the Russian
[00:02:56] troops. Elizaveta Bukreeva, Dmitry Zinoviev, Vesti Kursk.
[00:03:02] Now let's move on to technology news, we have Filipp Trofimov in the studio, host
[00:03:06] of the Vesti.net program, Philipp, what
[00:03:09] new vulnerability has been found in Apple smartphones, tell us
[00:03:13] who should be afraid of this vulnerability yet, it's not
[00:03:16] very clear, there is very little information, it's all
[00:03:19] available to Apple, but since the vulnerability has not yet
[00:03:22] been fixed, security experts are not publishing a detailed
[00:03:25] report, but I must say that this time the iPhone was hacked quite
[00:03:29] spectacularly. More on how exactly they managed to bypass
[00:03:32] the specially protected mode of smartphones from Cupertino, more on that
[00:03:36] later, let's start with the astonishing mass hacking
[00:03:39] of devices.
[00:03:41] Google security experts announced that they had discovered and neutralized
[00:03:45] a large-scale botnet, that is, a network of more than a million infected
[00:03:49] devices, and the most surprising thing in this story is that
[00:03:52] the creators of this botnet were not some
[00:03:55] nameless hackers, but a completely specific company,
[00:03:58] official and legal. Moreover, a verified and trusted
[00:04:02] partner of Google itself, a manufacturer of certified
[00:04:05] set-top boxes running on the Android operating system. We are talking about the company
[00:04:08] Video strong technology with its headquarters in Chinese
[00:04:12] Shenzhen. It was founded 15 years ago and produces a wide
[00:04:15] variety of electronics, but its main business for a long
[00:04:19] time was the production of set-top boxes running on the Android
[00:04:22] operating system under different brands, in particular under the Mikuol brand. And
[00:04:26] these set-top boxes were used as Boot nodes.
[00:04:30] This, as Google security experts claim, to bypass
[00:04:33] the mandatory checks during certification, Video Strong engineers were able to do so by
[00:04:36] having the extra module loaded into the device's
[00:04:40] firmware, initially not containing malicious code and
[00:04:43] activating only after the end user brought
[00:04:46] the set-top box home, configured it and connected it to
[00:04:50] the Internet, then this extra module disabled the built-in security
[00:04:54] features of the Android operating system and downloaded malicious
[00:04:57] code from a remote server. Google claims
[00:05:01] that Video Strong itself actually leased a network of almost
[00:05:04] 1.5 million compromised set-top boxes to various
[00:05:08] attackers.
[00:05:10] The main use cases for botnets
[00:05:12] are routing all kinds of illegal traffic and online advertising
[00:05:16] fraud, which is when hundreds of thousands of infected devices
[00:05:19] simulate viewing ad banners or even clicking on
[00:05:23] them. In addition, botnet operators had full access to
[00:05:27] devices, from launching commands to saving screenshots and
[00:05:30] scanning other devices on the local network.
[00:05:33] The geography of infection is vast.
[00:05:37] Security experts of the world's leading search engine even drew
[00:05:40] a map of unaffected regions - only Africa,
[00:05:44] Asia, and most of Western Europe. Google assures that this
[00:05:48] botnet has been defeated, the control servers are disconnected, certification
[00:05:51] rules have been revised, but the backdoor itself in the
[00:05:54] set-top boxes remained, the built-in operating
[00:05:58] system protection is still disabled, probably including
[00:06:02] on those devices that are not yet sold, for example, in
[00:06:05] Russian retail, at least a dozen models from a list of almost
[00:06:08] 200 compromised set-top boxes
[00:06:12] are actively sold.
[00:06:15] A little more about security, but this time in relation to significantly more
[00:06:18] complex, expensive, and personal Apple
[00:06:21] devices sent separate warnings to certain users in almost a hundred countries
[00:06:25] about a possible targeted cyberattack using
[00:06:29] spyware. Who exactly is trying to track whom, Cupertino does
[00:06:32] not publicly disclose. But it is for such a case that the iPhone has a special mode,
[00:06:36] called Lockdown. So almost simultaneously with
[00:06:39] warnings from Apple, Calif security
[00:06:42] experts posted a video online
[00:06:46] showing them successfully hacking an iPhone 18 Pro,
[00:06:50] precisely with Lockdown mode enabled. Moreover, at the time
[00:06:53] of the hack, an article was open on the smartphone screen in a publication
[00:06:57] with a quote from an Apple representative who claimed that
[00:07:01] no user who used Lockdown mode had
[00:07:04] been hacked yet. The variant demonstrated by
[00:07:08] Calif specialists for complete compromise of the iPhone was
[00:07:11] enough to accept. Open an ordinary-looking PDF file with
[00:07:15] a cat picture, after a couple of seconds, the malicious code disabled
[00:07:18] the iOS security system, launched an animation
[00:07:21] over the entire interface. The most surprising thing is that
[00:07:25] after that, right in the frame, an operating system update
[00:07:28] was rolled out to the smartphone, and it remained compromised. In other
[00:07:32] words, it works with the latest firmware version
[00:07:35] capable of surviving a full system update. How does
[00:07:39] all this work? Calif does not disclose the details. The vulnerabilities
[00:07:43] are only available to
[00:07:44] Apple.
[00:07:47] And a little about the difficulties in the memory chip and
[00:07:50] graphics accelerator market, where on the one hand there is a global shortage, on
[00:07:54] the other hand there are restrictions on supplies to individual countries. And all this, one way or another,
[00:07:57] is connected with the excitement around artificial intelligence. So,
[00:08:01] according to The Information, Chinese companies have
[00:08:04] found a way to import high-speed memory modules into
[00:08:08] the country that are needed for neural computing and whose export
[00:08:11] is restricted. As it turned out, American and South Korean export
[00:08:15] rules are tied to processor performance,
[00:08:18] respectively, companies appeared that mount expensive
[00:08:22] high-performance memory into cheap systems, transport all this
[00:08:25] across the border, desolder the memory, throw away the rest, and this
[00:08:29] looks like some kind of trend. Just last week, a video appeared online
[00:08:32] from the working premises of an entire
[00:08:36] factory, where top, but consumer gaming
[00:08:39] video cards of the RTX 5090 series are massively
[00:08:42] re-purposed into accelerators for neural network calculations for
[00:08:46] use in server
[00:08:47] racks.
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[00:13:11] Right now, a quick look at the main news by this hour:
[00:13:15] Kyiv is experiencing massive power outages, with electricity disruptions lasting at least
[00:13:19] five days. The day before, trams and trolleybuses were stopped in the city, the metro was not
[00:13:23] working in several areas. people staged
[00:13:26] protests.
[00:13:28] The Iranian people inflicted not only a strategic but also a political
[00:13:32] defeat on Trump, influencing the results of the congressional elections. This was stated by
[00:13:35] the Secretary of the Supreme Council of National Security
[00:13:38] of Iran, Makhten Rezai. Following the results of the elections on
[00:13:41] November 3, I remind you, the Democrats gained a majority in
[00:13:44] both chambers.
[00:13:47] In Spain, another round of street protests in Madrid. 6,000 people
[00:13:50] marched. They demand a reduction in the workload for teachers, and improved
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[00:14:00] Our archers will be able to compete in tournaments in Europe starting in January, with their own flag and
[00:14:04] anthem. The European Archery Federation has finally lifted
[00:14:07] the restrictions.