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Daily Crunch: Citizen Lab claims Apple’s ‘Lockdown Mode’ helped block spyware attack by hacker group NSO

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In Apple’s case, researchers looking into spyware vulnerabilities said its “Lockdown Mode” was able to thwart the advances of the infamous mercenary hacking provider NSO Group. Lorenzo has more. Also, Apple opens its first retail store in India , but there are…challenges, Manish writes.

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Daily Crunch: How to remove common consumer-grade spyware from your Android phone

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Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Tuesday, February 22, 2022! We are back! Yes, after a lovely long weekend, your entire TechCrunch team is back in the saddle. Which is good because everything appears to be going on at once.

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Announcing the agenda for TechCrunch Disrupt 2022

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It’s a pitch that has landed thousands of members and, most recently, a billion-dollar valuation as of May 2022. The State of VC in 2022. We’re bringing Sila’s Gene Berdichevsky, Index Ventures’ Erin Price-Wright and The Engine’s Katie Rae together to share the real nuts and bolts of early fundraising in 2022. .

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

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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. Turn on two-factor authentication!

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

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

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

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Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for Friday, March 11, 2022! 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. Oh boy was that a week. It was full and busy and, now, finally, over. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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Disrupt kicks off tomorrow — check out the highlights

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State of VC in 2022: VCs have never had so much capital socked away — with $100 billion more in so-called dry powder than the end of last year, according to Preqin — but with a tightening exit market, many are “slowing their roll” and asserting more control over deals after years of feverish dealmaking. Thursday, October 20.

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