Department of Justice reveals thwarted malware attack on Tesla, Facebook verifies that you link your news subscriptions to your social network account, and Xiaomi has plans for under-screen cameras. This is your Daily Crunch for August 28, 2020.
The big story: Tesla targeted a ransomware attackThe Justice Department released a complaint Thursday describing a thwarted malware attack against an unidentified company in Sparks, Nevada, where Tesla has a factory. And Elon Musk confirmed in a tweet that Tesla was the target: "This was a serious attack."
In the complaint, the Justice Department said Russian citizen Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov attempted to recruit and bribe a Tesla employee to smuggle malware into the company's network, specifically ransomware, which encrypts a victim's files and, in this case. , it would also have exfiltrated the data to the hacker's servers.
The tech giantsFacebook Tests Linking Your FB Account To Your News Subscriptions - Once you're logged in, if you encounter a paywall-protected article on Facebook, you'll be able to read it without hitting the paywall or having to log in again.
Xiaomi plans to bring under-screen cameras to its smartphones next year - the company claims it was able to effectively double the pixel density of competing technology, letting light through to the camera without sacrificing screen uniformity.
Startups, financing and venture capitalRailsbank is buying Wirecard Card Solutions, the disgraced UK division of fintech - Wirecard went bankrupt earlier this year after facing a massive accounting scandal and subsequently failing to make $ 1.5 billion in loan payments.
Steno raises $ 3.5 million led by First Round to become an extension of the law offices: Steno's first offer deploys court reporters and pays them, removing both potential headaches from lawyers' to-do lists .
Femtech Ready for Growth Beyond Fertility - This is according to a note from a PitchBook analyst, which identifies opportunities for entrepreneurs in expanding from a traditional focus on reproductive health.
Tips and analysis from Extra CrunchSaaS stocks outlive the earnings, keeping the market hot for software startups, exits - We're on the other side of nearly every single SaaS earnings report you can name (except Slack).
Podcast is Social: How Chinese Lizhi Makes Audio Interactive - "I learned from my days on the radio that interaction is the best monetization model in the audio industry," founder Marco Lai told us.
What does GPT-3 mean for the future of the legal profession? - Rudy DeFelice of Keesal Propulsion Labs argues that GPT-3 could be a game changer in legal and other knowledge-focused organizations.
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All the restGM shifts the Corvette engineering team to its electric and autonomous vehicle programs - specifically, the team responsible for the mid-engined Chevrolet Corvette.
Android Security Bug Allows Malicious Apps to Steal Home User Data - Oversecured App Security Launcher found the flaw in Google's widely used Play Core library.
Laura Deming, Frederik Groce, Amish Jani, Jessica Verrilli and Vanessa Larco are coming to Disrupt - they're just five of this year's Startup Battlefield judges.
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