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Organizations should be careful that the workers they hire on a freelance and temporary basis are not operatives working to funnel money to North Korea's WMD program, US DOJ says.

SecurityWeek reports that California-based fraud detection and defense startup Spec has pulled in $15 million from a Series A funding round, bringing total investment to over $29 million, with the newly secured funds to be allocated toward bolstering its no-code orchestration platform and threat labs, as well as strengthening its specialized fraud prevention system collaborations.

Numerous alleged call centers facilitating tech support scams across India have been raided by law enforcement officials following information from Microsoft and Amazon as part of the country's crackdown on cyber-related financial crime, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.

Quartz reports that almost 87 million U.S. patients had their health data compromised during the first nine months of 2023, 45 million of which had their data breached during the third quarter alone, compared with the 37 million patients who were impacted by data breaches in the entirety of 2022.

Officials at the City of Philadelphia have disclosed that data from an unspecified number of the city's residents may have been compromised as a result of a breach of its email system, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

TechCrunch reports that the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands has revealed that cyberespionage was involved in the sophisticated and targeted cyberattack against its systems last month.

Week-long IT outages at American Family Insurance impacting the major U.S. insurance firm's online and phone services, as well as building connectivity.

Officials at Europol have confirmed that the Ragnar Locker ransomware group's infrastructure has been dismantled alongside the arrest of a primary target working as a developer for the ransomware gang.

Attacks with the new ExelaStealer information-stealing malware have been directed against Windows systems in a bid to exfiltrate various data, including passwords, credit cards, keystrokes, cookies, Discord tokens, clipboard content, and screenshots, according to The Hacker News.

Governments across the Asia-Pacific had their systems compromised by the new TetrisPhantom advanced persistent threat operation in attacks leveraging secure USB drives infected with a trojanized UTetris app over the last few years.