Welcome to another Morning Bowl breakout:
The Week in Ransomware - November 18th 2022 - Rising Operations
There have been some interesting developments in ransomware this week, with the arrest of a cybercrime ring leader and reports shedding light on two new, but up-and-coming, ransomware operations. [...]
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Atlassian Releases Patches for Critical Flaws Affecting Crowd and Bitbucket Products
Australian software company Atlassian has rolled out security updates to address two critical flaws affecting Bitbucket Server, Data Center, and Crowd products. The issues, tracked as CVE-2022-43781 and CVE-2022-43782, are both rated 9 out of 10 on the CVSS vulnerability scoring system. CVE-2022-43781, which Atlassian said was introduced in version 7.0.0 of Bitbucket Server and Data Center,
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Chinese 'Mustang Panda' Hackers Actively Targeting Governments Worldwide
A notorious advanced persistent threat actor known as Mustang Panda has been linked to a spate of spear-phishing attacks targeting government, education, and research sectors across the world. The primary targets of the intrusions from May to October 2022 included counties in the Asia Pacific region such as Myanmar, Australia, the Philippines, Japan, and Taiwan, cybersecurity firm Trend Micro
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The Week in Ransomware - November 18th 2022 - Rising Operations
There have been some interesting developments in ransomware this week, with the arrest of a cybercrime ring leader and reports shedding light on two new, but up-and-coming, ransomware operations. [...]
Read more....
Atlassian Releases Patches for Critical Flaws Affecting Crowd and Bitbucket Products
Australian software company Atlassian has rolled out security updates to address two critical flaws affecting Bitbucket Server, Data Center, and Crowd products. The issues, tracked as CVE-2022-43781 and CVE-2022-43782, are both rated 9 out of 10 on the CVSS vulnerability scoring system. CVE-2022-43781, which Atlassian said was introduced in version 7.0.0 of Bitbucket Server and Data Center,
Read more....
Chinese 'Mustang Panda' Hackers Actively Targeting Governments Worldwide
A notorious advanced persistent threat actor known as Mustang Panda has been linked to a spate of spear-phishing attacks targeting government, education, and research sectors across the world. The primary targets of the intrusions from May to October 2022 included counties in the Asia Pacific region such as Myanmar, Australia, the Philippines, Japan, and Taiwan, cybersecurity firm Trend Micro
Read more....