Hi everyone. Welcome to the A6 and Z podcast. I'm Sonal and this is our second episode of 16 minutes, our new news show where we cover recent headlines of the week, The A6 and Z way.

Why they're in the news, why they matter from our vantage point in tech, and share our experts views on the trends involved as well.

The first episode covered Neurrelink and Brain Computer Interfaces, TikTok influencers, and AI,

Face App, and more. You can listen to that as well at Rand last week. But in this episode,

we covered these two topics that came up in the news this week, a new kind of mobile malware

that's out there in the wild, and a new bipartisan proposal for lowering drug prices for

senior citizens, with a short lay of the land

on drug pricing in general. Remember as we mentioned specific companies that none of this is

investment advice nor is it a solicitation for investors in any of our funds. Please be sure to read

A6.Z.com slash disclosures for more important details. Finally, you should be able to find the show

in the current A6NZ podcast feed,

which is probably where you found it, as its own show, 16 minutes in your favorite app shortly

and on our website at A6C.com slash 16 minutes. So their first news item is on malware,

which sounds very scary and malicious, aka the mall. So let me actually quickly summarize the

news and then I'll introduce the A6 and Z expert joining us to talk about this. So here's the news.

This week, a report was released by Mobile Security Company Lookout, which also happens to be an A6 and Z

portfolio company. And basically, researchers there discovered some of the most advanced mobile

surveillance wear ever seen.

And to quote the Ars Technica article, which is one of my favorite news sites, by the way,

for this type of topic, the malware is called Monocle. Sounds like a James Bond character.

And it's been in the wild since at least March 2016, so over three years ago.

And let me just quickly say what it is. It's an Android-based

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