A week in security (June 7 – June 13)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs:

• Amazon SIdewalk starts sharing your WiFi data tomorrow, thanks
• White hat, black hat, grey hat hackers: what’s the difference?
• Can two VPN “wrongs” make a right? Lock and Code S02E10
• DOJ recovers pipeline ransom, signals more aggressive approach to cybercrime
• 800 arrests after police dupe crime groups into using backdoored phones
• TrickBot indictment reveals the scale and complexity of organised cybercrime
• Microsoft fixes seven zero-days, including two PuzzleMaker targets, Google fixes serious Android flaw
• How to clear cookies
• Russia accused of hacking Dutch police during MH17 investigation
• How a Resident Evil image leaked in a ransomware attack ended up in the middle of a $12 copyright claim
• Cloud vs on premise: 3 reasons the cloud is winning
• How to deactivate or delete your Facebook account

Other cybersecurity news

• Hackers steal wealth of data from game giant EA (Source: VICE)
• JBS USA pay $11 million ransom to ransomware attackers (Source: JBS USA)
• China arrests over 1,000 for using cryptocurrency to help launder proceeds of phone scams (Source: The Register)
• Philippine investigators accuse ex-Wirecard COO of fraud, cybercrime (Source: France 24)
• UK promises tougher line on cybercrime (Source: Computer Weekly)
• Some banks could do more to protect customers from phishing scams, says Which? (source: Wales Online)
• The coming AI hackers (Source: Harvard Business Review)
• Hackers steal 26m account logins for Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix and more (Source: Metro)
• This phishing email is pushing password-stealing malware to Windows PCs (Source: ZDNet)
• Researchers discover Stem Audio smart speaker eavesdropping risk (Source: The Daily Swig)

Stay safe, everyone!

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