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Okta downplayed the incident, but security researchers point out that the support management system could contain valuable information related to Okta customer support cases.

Cops track down ransomware developer and seize Ragnar Locker infrastructure and data-leak site, Europol says.

A spoofed version of an Israeli rocket-attack alerting app is targeting Android devices, in a campaign that shows how cyber-espionage attacks are shifting to individual, everyday citizens.

US DoJ: Beware of hiring freelance and temporary workers that could be operatives working to funnel money to North Korea's WMD program.

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.