A week in security (June 14 – June 20)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs:

• How to delete your Instagram account.
• Working from home? You’re probably being spied on.
• Another one bites the dust: Avaddon ransomware group shuts down operation.
• Patch now! Apple fixes in-the-wild iPhone vulnerabilities.
• Windows 10 to retire in four years (or 52 Patch Tuesdays, in sysadmin years).
• Twitter takes aim at the chaos, clutter and trolls with new feature concepts.
• Jail for consultant who scraped colossal trove of Alibaba customer data.
• Clop stopped? Ransomware gang loses Tesla and other treasures in police raid.
• The 6 best Chrome extensions for privacy and security.
• Polazert Trojan using poisoned Google Search results to spread.
• Two Google plans that could make open source code more secure.

Other cybersecurity news:

• Audi and Volkswagen customer data is being sold on a hacking forum after allegedly being stolen from an exposed Azure BLOB container. (Source: BleepingComputer)
• US President Joe Biden told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that certain critical infrastructure should be “off-limits” to cyberattacks. (Source: Reuters)
• Apple’s CEO Tim Cook says Android has 47 times more malware than iOS because of sideloading. (Source: TechSpot)
• Multiple digital artists and creators of non-fungible tokens (NFT) were at the center of a highly targeted malware campaign. (Source: The Record)
• Former Dallas-area ADT technician gets prison time for watching customers’ home security video feeds. (Source: MSN News)
• Amazon is blocking Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC), Google’s controversial cookieless tracking and targeting method. (Source: Digiday)
• The secretary general of NATO has warned cyber-attacks could result in a military response from its allies. (Source: BBC News)
• Computer scientist and technology entrepreneur Andrew Ng launches a campaign for data-centric Artificial Intelligence. (Source: Forbes)

Stay safe, everyone!

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