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U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) paid $825,000 earlier this year to a company that manufactures vehicles with a variety of technology for law enforcement, including a fake cell phone tower known as “Cell-Site Simulators.” According to public records, the award dated May 8th was “Providing Cell Site Simulator (CSS) vehicles to support the Technical Operations Program for Homeland Security,” and is a change to “additional CSS vehicles.” The agreement was signed with Techops Specialty Vehicles (TOSV), a Maryland-based company. TOSV also signed a similar agreement with ICE for $818,000 in September 2024, indicating the agency-company relationship that pre-Trump administration. TOSV…
Hackers working for the North Korean government have been stolen more than $2 billion in code so far this year, according to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic. On Tuesday, Elliptic published a blog post with this new quote. The company said it was “the largest total on record and hasn't made it for three months yet,” and is based on more than 30 hacks this year. Previous records were in 2022 when North Korea stole $1.35 billion. According to Elliptic, the total amount of stolen codes since 2017 is at least $6 billion. “The actual numbers could be even higher. Accidenting…
In a StrictlyVC download this week, Prime Minister Connie Loizos' TechCrunch editor speaks with Kara Nortman, co-founder of Monarch Collective, the first fund dedicated solely to women's sports. Noteman launched the $250 million fund in 2023 just before women's sports exploded into the mainstream. But she didn't just get good fortune. She helped create the market with the co-founded Angel City Football Club. This proved that it could earn $30 million from scratch and pack a women's soccer stadium. The two discuss Monarch's unusual approach, where the team is making a very focused bet, and invest the time most PE…
The Indian government's tax authorities have fixed a security flaw in the income tax return portal, which publishes sensitive taxpayer data. The flaw, discovered by security researchers Akshay CS and “Viral” in September, allowed anyone logged in to the Income Tax Bureau's electronic filing portal to access other people's latest personal and financial data. The exposed data included the names, home addresses and email addresses, date of birth, phone numbers and bank account details of those paying taxes on their Indian income. The data also exposed citizens' Aadhaar numbers. This is a unique government-issued identifier used as proof of identity…
Oracle fixed a zero-day vulnerability in one of the flagship business software products that hacking groups are currently abusing personal information about corporate executives. In a short post updated over the weekend, Oracle's chief executive Rob Duhart said the tech giant released a new patch to fix the vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite, urging customers to install the update as soon as possible. The Security Advisory said that bugs officially tracked as CVE-2025-61882 can be “exploited on the network without the need for a username and password.” The advisory provides some so-called metrics of compromise to help Oracle customers identify…
Sheena Jindal is from Boston. She grew up there, attended MIT and worked for the Boston Consulting Group for several years. She started a startup and worked for a startup before becoming an investor in Bessemer and Comcast Ventures (CV). Last year, her world collided when she decided to launch Sugar Free Capital, a company focused on investing in MIT's technology founders. She arrested LPS, including the family offices of heavy, tech executives from companies such as Nvidia and Citadel, and announced the closure of Sugar Free's first $32 million fund on Monday. One premise of the fund is in…
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott joins TechCrunch's 2025 disruption phase to share what one of the world's biggest tech companies navigates the AI revolution and shares what it means for the innovation startup and the future. From landmark partnerships with Openai to rebuilding businesses and consumer products with AI, Scott will pull back the curtains where Microsoft sees its biggest opportunity. This is not a session you will miss. It leaps towards one of the biggest debates about AI from an enterprise perspective. Sign up now to save up to $444 with your pass or up to 30% with your group…
TechCrunch's exhibition table is the 2025 exhibition table taking place in Western Moscon in San Francisco from October 27-29, one of the most in-demand opportunities of the year and is quickly disappearing. We expanded the floor just two weeks ago and added tables due to overwhelming demand, but are already close to selling out. Once these final spots are gone, there is no more room to expand. This is the chance to place the startup directly in front of over 10,000 founders, investors, decision makers and press. Everything is under one roof. Don't wait until your competitors are already there.…
Dr. Tom Kelly is a trauma surgeon and everywhere he sees doctors drowning in administrative work. He wanted change so he tried to build it. “We wanted to build an AI care partner who would stand with clinicians and care for managers so that individual providers like me could be empowered to provide the care they devoted to our lives,” he told TechCrunch. Dr. Kelly worked with Waleed Mussa, who worked at a former startup, to establish Heidi Health in 2021. The company began launching its products in early 2024. In just 18 months, the company said it had returned…
Korea is world-renowned for hosting global technology brands such as Hyundai, LG and Samsung as a leader in fiery high-speed internet, nearby broadband coverage and digital innovation. However, this highly successful set the country a major target for hackers and revealed how vulnerable cybersecurity defenses are. The country is shaking from a series of prominent hacks that have impacted credit card companies, telecoms, tech startups, government agencies and affect the vast range of Koreans. In both cases, ministries and regulators seemed to scramble in parallel, sometimes postpone each other rather than move in unison. Critics argue that South Korea's cyber…