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News
 − Russia bans private messaging apps owned by foreign entities

Russia's internet watchdog agency Roskomnadzor is warning that today is
the first day that laws banning the use of many foreign private
messaging applications in the country come into force.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/russia-bans-private-messaging-apps-owned-by-foreign-entities/
   

− White House Releases National Cybersecurity Strategy

The U.S. government released its widely anticipated National
Cybersecurity Strategy on Tuesday.
https://www.securityweek.com/white-house-releases-national-cybersecurity-strategy/
   


Vulnerabilities
− MQsTTang: Mustang Panda’s latest backdoor treads new ground with Qt
and MQTT

ESET researchers tease apart MQsTTang, a new backdoor used by Mustang
Panda, which communicates via the MQTT protocol
https://www.welivesecurity.com/2023/03/02/mqsttang-mustang-panda-latest-backdoor-treads-new-ground-qt-mqtt/
   

− Exploitation affecting IBM’s Aspera Faspex using CVE-2022-47986

Threat Actors have been observed actively exploiting a recently identified, high severity vulnerability in IBM’s Aspera Faspex file transfer solution. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2022-47986 and classed as ‘high severity’ with a CVSS score of 9.8.
https://www.ncsc.gov.ie/pdfs/IBM_Aspera_Faspex_01032023.pdf
   

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