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

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Also featured are stories about WeWork’s perennial struggles, Google’s Messages app fully embracing RCS, and spyware maker LetMeSpy shutting down after a massive data breach. Audio This reporter would venture to say that TechCrunch’s roster of podcasts has something for every interest. Now, on with the recap.

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Daily Crunch: After raising $3M seed, global fintech platform Payday plans to secure licensing in Canada, UK

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Connie reports that 1,100+ notable signatories just signed an open letter asking “all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months.” Alexa, call Grandma” : A new Amazon capability brings T-Mobile customers into the fold for making and receiving calls via an Alexa-enabled device, Ivan reports. PDT, subscribe here. Manish has more.

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

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Per our reporting, Lido “is the market leader for Ethereum liquid staking” and just raised $70 million from a16z. And there was even more, of course: MyPlace raised nearly $6 million for a home-sharing social network, Apollo.io And the startup just raised $5 million for its work.

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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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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. to the journalist Martyn Williams , who specializes in reporting on North Korean technology.

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Hidden inside Dark Caracal’s espionage apps: Old tech

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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. We’re assuming that targets were socially engineered to have allowed installs from third parties,” Flossman says.

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Fed Tech Roundup July 24

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Advanced spyware for Android now available to script kiddies everywhere. State Department Seeks Russian-speaking Social Media Maven. Verisign Reports Second Quarter 2015 Results. Defense Infrastructure: Improvements in DOD Reporting and Cybersecurity Implementation Needed to Enhance Utility Resilience Planning, July 23, 2015.

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