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

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Meanwhile, Frederic reports on Google Cloud launching AlloyDB Omni ; Ivan has your look at Google’s new ad transparency center ; Manish reports on an Android antitrust case in India ; Aisha writes about new Google Search features ; and Lorenzo and Carly round it out with a story on hackers using spyware to target users in the UAE.

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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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Disrupt kicks off tomorrow — check out the highlights

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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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Hidden inside Dark Caracal’s espionage apps: Old tech

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The hackers hid Trojan malware in legitimate-looking and functioning apps for devices running Google’s Android operating system, promoting their third-party app marketplace installation via links on Facebook and other social platforms. The malware included hacked versions of end-to-end encrypted communication apps Signal and WhatsApp.

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