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

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And there was even more, of course: MyPlace raised nearly $6 million for a home-sharing social network, Apollo.io 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.

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

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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. But when an official from India’s central bank compares cryptocurrencies to Ponzi schemes, we take note. The TechCrunch Top 3. The latest?

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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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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. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for January 11, 2022!

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Disrupt kicks off tomorrow — check out the highlights

TechCrunch

How to Build Your Early VC Network — Turning Social Capital into Financial Capital: If you haven’t heard of Nik, Josh or Gefen, where have you been? They are founders who are not only building very interesting companies but have also taken a forward approach toward making noise on social media.

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The importance of Softwares in securing websites.

Xebia

Also, Shopping websites, gaming websites, banking websites, and online betting websites are under threat from hackers. Our company software is there to protect such data and enable the protection of social media websites. It is a collective term that represents viruses, worms, spyware, penetrative software discharges.

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Technology News and Hot Topics

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Last week technology news site Re:Code announced that it would stop hosting comments on its own sites as the conversation around stories was already happening on social media. Rush-hour traffic forces banks to embrace technology. Regin, new computer spyware, discovered by Symantec.