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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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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. However, Citizen Lab identified in a 2015 report the GDGS as one of two Lebanese government organizations using FinFisher surveillance software.

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CVE-2023-41064, CVE-2023-4863, CVE-2023-5129: Frequently Asked Questions for ImageIO and WebP/libwebp Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Tenable

On September 7, researchers at Citizen Lab published a blog post detailing their discovery of an iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit chain in Apple iOS used to deploy a spyware known as Pegasus. It is a part of Apple operating systems from iOS and iPadOS to macOS, and watchOS. What is WebP or libwebp?

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

Tenable

Enter the Executive Security Action Forum, an RSA Conference community of security executives from Fortune 1000 companies, which just released a report to help CISOs improve their board presentations. Included in overall enterprise risk management, by showing how cyber risks compare with the company’s operational and other risks.

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Runa Sandvik’s new startup Granitt secures at-risk people from hackers and nation states

TechCrunch

Journalists and activists are increasingly targeted by the wealthy and resourceful who seek to keep the truth hidden, from nation-state aligned hackers hacking into journalist’s inboxes to governments deploying mobile spyware to snoop on their most vocal critics. There aren’t a lot of people that focus on security for reporters.

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Zero-Day: Vulnerabilities, Exploits, Attacks and How to Manage Them

Kaseya

Those tools also take an inventory of all IT assets, such as servers, desktops, virtual machines, operating systems, applications and active ports, on each machine to scan them for security flaws. The Stuxnet worm was spread through Microsoft Windows computers and could be carried on USB drives as well.