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Daily Crunch: Byju’s founder chips in toward $800M funding round to reach $22B valuation

TechCrunch

We have your full news digest below, but stay hype about TechCrunch Sessions: Mobility , because it’s looking increasingly lit. EU to investigate state use of spyware : The Pegasus mobile spyware is causing headaches in Europe for more than just the folks who found themselves targets of the software. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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

TechCrunch

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. Locket, which is tearing up the mobile application charts.

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

TechCrunch

It is an interesting argument against Windows and the larger Web (we kid), but does raise notable points regarding mobile security and consumer expectations. Image Credits: DNY59 (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. It’s worth reading regardless of your priors. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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

TechCrunch

There’s also a neat DeFi event coming up , and TC Sessions: Mobility will feature Nuro co-founder Jiajun Zhu , which is fun as the company is worth $8.6 Image Credits: sergeyskleznev (opens in a new window). But first, some programming notes: Our city spotlight series is back, and TechCrunch is heading to Austin.

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Hidden inside Dark Caracal’s espionage apps: Old tech

The Parallax

The digital-rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation and Lookout Mobile Security, which co-authored the report, say they tracked the Dark Caracal phishing campaign across more than 60 websites. “ If you had even a little mobile development experience, [Dark Caracal] could cost less than $1,000.”—Michael

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Breaking Down the NASCIO Top 10 for 2023

Palo Alto Networks

Cortex XDR protects legacy Windows, Windows Server, MacOS and Linux systems. With state CIOs focused on strengthening statewide connectivity, expanding rural broadband and deploying 5G, mobile users and devices are more at risk than ever. Palo Alto Networks offers solutions, such as our ML-Powered NGFW for 5G.

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Fighting Ransomware: Using Ivanti’s Platform to Build a Resilient Zero Trust Security Defense – Part 2

Ivanti

Within the initial blog in this series , we discussed ransomware attacks and their remediation on Android mobile devices. Part 2 addresses potential ransomware exploits and their remediation on iOS, iPadOS mobile devices and macOS desktops. iOS and iPadOS Exploits. That is mind blowing! What will the outcome for 2021 reveal?

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