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Daily Crunch: India’s Central Bank says cryptocurrency ‘may even be worse’ than Ponzi schemes

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It is an interesting argument against Windows and the larger Web (we kid), but does raise notable points regarding mobile security and consumer expectations. India continues to debate the fate of cryptocurrencies : A nation’s regulatory and banking bodies debating blockchain technology and its related tokens is a daily occurrence.

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Daily Crunch: Thousands of Google Play users download Android banking trojan

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Image Credits: sergeyskleznev (opens in a new window). Yet more spyware is out there, stealing your data : Sadly, the name of the Android spyware that is sucking up folks’ information is called TeaBot, which is a super-cute moniker. To achieve enterprise sales success, tailor your approach to CIOs.

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Daily Crunch: After clinching $12.3B valuation, Brex hires Meta exec as chief product officer

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Today we have new venture funds, spyware news, Brex raising (again), and more. Cybersecurity matters to democracy : Spyware built by the infamous NSO Group was “used to spy on three critics of the Polish government,” according to Citizen Lab, TechCrunch reports. Image Credits: ShadowPix (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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Even North Korea has an antivirus program—but it’s used for spying

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Researchers announced on May 1 that when they inspected the ingredients of the North Korean antivirus software for Windows computers, they found a mix of spyware and old code stolen from an antivirus vendor. Jaku is a known spyware-botnet combination, spread over BitTorrent.

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September Patch Tuesday 2021

Ivanti

Microsoft released updates for Windows, Office, Azure and Visual Studio this month resolving a total of 64 vulnerabilities. Microsoft’s original mitigation guidance released on September 7 can be disabled once you have updated all Windows OSs this month. This CVE applies to the legacy Windows OSs. and iOS 14.8

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Tips for cloud configs, MSP vetting, CISO board presentations

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Here’s the full list: SocGholish, a remote access trojan (RAT) and a banking trojan that uses fake Flash updates. CoinMiner, a cryptocurrency miner that spreads using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) and EternalBlue. ZeuS, a modular banking trojan that uses keystroke logging.

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Daily Crunch: Twitter tells GitHub to remove proprietary source code and help them ID who posted it

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Startups and VC First Citizens Bank has agreed to buy $72 billion in deposits and loans from Silicon Valley Bridge Bank , the California lender formerly known as Silicon Valley Bank that was taken over by the FDIC two weeks ago, Manish reports. Ivan explains what happened next. Just starting out angel investing?