Data brokers offer information on active US military personnel. Current BlueNoroff activity. A new Gootloader variant is active in the wild. Atlassian vulnerabilities actively exploited. The prevalence of breaches. Update on a Barracuda vulnerability. Hacktivism and the cyber course of the Hamas-Israel war. Bot-hunting in Ukraine. Microsoft’s Ann Johnson from Afternoon Cyber Tea speaks with Sharon Barber, Chief Information Officer at Lloyds Banking Group, about cyber trends in financial services. Ben Yelin looks at the ease of purchasing US military personnel data from data brokers And election security is in the news–an off-year election is an election nonetheless.

For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news briefing:

https://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/12/213