The Pentagon awards Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Oracle a cloud-computing contract of up to $9B each through 2028 under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
The SEC fines Oracle $23M for allegedly bribing officials in India, Turkey, and the UAE between 2016 and 2019, the second such fine after a 2012 settlement  —  – Oracle has settled with the Securities and Exchange Commission after it was charged with violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act …

Brody Ford / Bloomberg:
Oracle reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $11.4B; total cloud revenue was up 45% YoY to $3.6B, and health data provider Cerner, acquired in June, generated $1.4B  —  Oracle Corp.’s quarterly sales jumped 18%, buoyed by the software maker’s transition to cloud computing and the acquisition of health records provider Cerner.

Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Sources: the Pentagon plans to audit how it conducts online clandestine information warfare after Meta, Twitter, and others removed pro-US operations  —  Complaints about the U.S. military’s influence operations using Facebook and Twitter have raised concern in the White House and federal agencies.

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
The FBI and CISA say an Iranian-backed threat group hacked a US Federal Civilian Executive Branch and deployed XMRig cryptomining malware via the Log4Shell flaw  —  The FBI and CISA revealed in a joint advisory published today that an unnamed Iranian-backed threat group hacked …

Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Google partners with Coinbase to let some customers pay for cloud services in crypto, starting in 2023; Coinbase will move some data from AWS to Google Cloud  —  – Google will start allowing a subset of customers to pay for cloud services with digital currencies early next year.

Jordan Novet / CNBC:
IBM reports Q3 revenue up 6.5% YoY to $14.11B vs. $13.51B est., with software revenue up 7.5% YoY to $5.81B vs. $5.54B est., and lifts FY 2022 revenue forecast  —  – IBM beat on the top and bottom lines and raised its revenue growth forecast for all of 2022.