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Researchers jailbreak a Tesla, the FCC fines robocallers and WeWork finds itself in trouble (again)

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In this week’s edition of WiR, we cover researchers figuring out a way to “jailbreak” Teslas, the AI.com domain name switching hands and the FCC fining robocallers. If you haven’t already, sign up here to get WiR in your inbox every Saturday. Now, on with the recap.

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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. SaaS companies are like leaky rowboats.

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Liberty Strategic Capital nabs majority stake in mobile security startup Zimperium for $525M

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In fact, last year the company discovered spyware called PhoneSpy in 23 Android apps designed to steal data. The company covers three parts of the mobile market looking at device security, mobile applications security and mobile threat intelligence.

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Daily Crunch: Months after rejecting a $17B bid, Zendesk sells to private equity group for $10.2B

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Spyware reaches Android: Security researchers at Outlook recently tied a previously unattributed Android mobile spyware , dubbed Hermit, to Italian software house RCS Lab, Zack reports. It’s intended to help create synthetic data for training AI models in situations where real-world data isn’t plentiful.

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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. READ MORE ON SECURITY AND GEOPOLITICS.

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Apple releases security updates for iOS, iPadOS and macOS, fixing two actively exploited zero-days

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following a vulnerability disclosure by security researchers at Google’s Threat Analysis Group, which investigates […] © 2023 TechCrunch. Apple has released security updates for iPhones, iPads and Macs to patch against two vulnerabilities, which the company says are being actively exploited to hack people. and macOS 14.1.2,

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Disrupt kicks off tomorrow — check out the highlights

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Surveillance in Startup Land: Join us for a crash course in the surveillance state — from spyware makers to location data brokers. Jennifer Stisa Granick, surveillance and cybersecurity counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and Maddie Stone, security researcher, Project Zero, Google.

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