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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 Image Credits: sergeyskleznev (opens in a new window).

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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. Image Credits: ShadowPix (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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

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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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Cybersecurity Snapshot: NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework Gets Major Update, as Advisories on APT29 and ALPHV Blackcat Get Rolled Out

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To gain initial access, cybercriminals associated with ALPHV Blackcat employ advanced social engineering techniques and publicly-available information about a company. About two months ago, the FBI announced it had disrupted ALPHV Blackcat’s operations , but the ransomware gang has regrouped and has been causing mayhem recently.

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Daily Crunch: Google will unplug its IoT Core service in August 2023

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Super psyched to share something double-plus-awesome with you: The culmination of months of work by Zack is finally live — we’ve launched TheTruthSpy spyware lookup tool , where you can see if your phone has been compromised in various spyware hacks. billion as it raises an additional $150 million, Paul reports. Startups and VC.

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