Engineers from Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NictI) shocked the world by performing the world’s first data transmission at a speed of 1.02 petabit per second (100,000 times faster than current fiber optics).
This is a new brand for speed that currently exists on the market, what could be the beginning of an unprecedented stage in Internet connections at home.
According to experts, with a power of 1 petabit per second, up to 10 million video channels per second could be transmitted at 8K resolution.
Equally, will allow live transmissions, from anywhere in the world, to be uninterrupted, so how to send 127,500 gigabytes of data per second.
At this speed you could watch up to 10 million channels per second of video at 8K resolution. Compared to the last record, it’s three times faster.
“The test was carried out with fiber optic cables technically compatible with the current infrastructure, which would mean that the technology could be available in the short term,” the experts noted.
While achieving unprecedented speed, the transmission bandwidth record was broken, reaching up to 20 THz thanks to wavelength division multiplexing technology.
The results were presented at the International Conference on Laser and Electro-Optics 2022.
“Benjamin Patnam, Senior Researcher, Network Research Institute, et al. have used wideband wavelength division multiplexing technology on a standard outside diameter (0.125mm) 4-core optical fiber for research and development,” the institute said on its Twitter account.
And he added that “they are the first in the world to use 1 petabit per second in fiber. We have succeeded in a large-capacity transmission experiment that exceeds it.”
It is not the first time that this institute has achieved world records with the construction of various transmission systems using new optical fibers.
In 2020, the same experts were able to reach a speed of 178 Tbps, but for this they needed data encoded in 15 different modes, so they needed a very complex technology.
Now, they have managed to improve the record of June 2021, when they reached 319 Tbps with a fiber that could be combined with current technology.
Dismantle FluBot: the banking Trojan that posed as delivery companies via SMS
Meanwhile, Europol dismantled the infrastructure of FluBot, a Trojan for Android devices that was distributed via SMS and pretended to be a delivery company to deceive its victims, which has had a significant impact in Spain in the last two years.
An operation in which eleven countries participated, including Spain, managed to dismantle the infrastructure used by the criminals behind FluBot, according to a Europol press release.
It is one of the most rapidly distributed mobile malware to date, as pointed out by the European agency, with a strong incidence in Spain and Finland since it was discovered in 2020.
FluBot is a banking Trojan for Android that impersonates a delivery company to deceive mobile device users, with whom it contacts via SMS. It warns of a problem with a supposed order and provides a link from which to check the status of the shipment.
Malware uses this channel to entice victims to download a malicious application. Its danger lies in the fact that it uses ‘Accessibility’, an Android component that observes and controls the device, to acquire the ability to display superimposed windows that can be displayed on top of what is on the screen, which facilitates data theft on, for example, fake banking portals, and make it difficult to uninstall them.
The cybersecurity company Eset first warned of its activity in late 2020, when it had not yet received a nameand later in March of last year, on the occasion of a campaign in Spain that supplanted the company MRW.
By the end of that month, it had already infected 60,000 terminals around the world and collected 11 million phone numbers to continue spreading through SMS, as Avast warned.
*With information from Europa Press.