It’s 5:05, on Tuesday, November 15th, 2022, the 319th day of the year. This is your daily update of open source and cybersecurity news that might have slipped by the major news sources. We have 20 reporters from around the world. Today’s updates are from Tracy Bannon with an exclusive update on Pushwoosh, Olimpiu Pop a few kilometers from the Ukraine border in Transylvania, Romania, Edwin Kwan in Sydney Australia, Kadi Grigg in Alexandria Virginia, and Derek Weeks in Bethesda Maryland.  Let’s get to it!

🇺🇸 Trac Bannon, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania 

Exclusive: Russian software disguised as American finds its way into U.S. Army, CDC apps

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-russian-software-disguised-american-finds-its-way-into-us-army-cdc-2022-11-14/ 

🇷🇴Olimpiu Pop, Transylvania, Romania

Russian Ransomware Attacks on Ukrainian Companies

Bill Toulas: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/author/bill-toulas/

BleepingComputer: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ukraine-says-russian-hacktivists-use-new-somnia-ransomware/

Britannica: The Vietnam War and the Media: ​​https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Vietnam-War-and-the-media-2051426

🇦🇺 Edwin Kwan, Sydney, Australia

Bleeping Computer: New extortion scam threatens to damage sites’ reputation, leak data

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-extortion-scam-threatens-to-damage-sites-reputation-leak-data/

Sergiu Gatlan: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/author/sergiu-gatlan/

🇺🇸 Kadi Grigg, Alexandria, VA

GitHub’s Octoverse Report finds 97% of apps use open source software

Taryn Plumb: https://venturebeat.com/author/taryn-plumb/

Venture Beat: https://venturebeat.com/programming-development/github-releases-open-source-report-octoverse-2022-says-97-of-apps-use-oss/

GitHub Octoverse Report: https://octoverse.github.com/

🇺🇸 Mark Miller, New York City

WordPress hacked through lame SEO “campaign”

Ben Martin: https://blog.sucuri.net/author/benmartin

Secui: https://blog.sucuri.net/2022/11/massive-ois-is-black-hat-redirect-malware-campaign.html

PublicWWW: https://publicwww.com/websites/%22ois.is%22/

🇺🇸 Derek Weeks, Bethesda, Maryland

Opinion: Will software liability ever change?

Bruce Schneier: https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram/archives/2002/0415.html

Chinmayi Sharma: https://www.lawfareblog.com/contributors/csharma

John Speed Meyers: https://www.lawfareblog.com/contributors/jmeyers

James Howison: https://www.lawfareblog.com/contributors/jhowison

Lawfare: The Securing Open Source Software Act Is Good, but Whatever Happened to Legal Liability? https://www.lawfareblog.com/securing-open-source-software-act-good-whatever-happened-legal-liability