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Carlton Fields

No Password Required: USF Cybercrime Professor, Former Federal Agent, and Vintage Computer Archivist

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Dr. Thomas Hyslip teaches at the master’s in cybercrime program at the University of South Florida, where he blends criminology, digital forensics, and incident response coursework. A retired U.S. Army colonel, Dr. Hyslip's...more

Burr & Forman

Hacking the Hive: How It Can Help Businesses

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Businesses can breathe a little easier now that one of the world’s top five ransomware networks, the Hive, has been infiltrated and disbanded by the FBI....more

Hogan Lovells

Cybercrime: Potentielle Strafbarkeitsrisiken für Geschäftsleiter wegen Unterstützung einer kriminellen Vereinigung im Falle einer...

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Die Bedrohungslage durch Cyberangriffe mittels Ransomware-Attacken hat sich zuletzt weiter verschärft. Angesichts der schwerwiegenden und kostenintensiven Auswirkungen solcher Attacken auf den laufenden Geschäftsbetrieb von...more

Alston & Bird

Russia Arrests Suspected Members of REvil Ransomware Gang

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Russia’s Federal Security Service (“FSB”) issued a press release on January 14, 2022 claiming that it dismantled the REvil ransomware gang by arresting 14 suspected members and seizing computer equipment, luxury vehicles,...more

Sunstein LLP

Cyber-criminals Beware: Governmental Surveillance of Suspects Does Not Always Require a Warrant

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A search warrant is not required for law enforcement to use pen registers to record the IP addresses visited by a criminal suspect, a federal appeals court recently held. This follows a 1979 Supreme Court case, Smith v....more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Polite Prediction: Criminal Division Appointee Positions DOJ For focus On Public Corruption, Civil Rights, National Security, And...

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On April 12, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Kenneth Polite Jr. as Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division at the Department of Justice (“DOJ”). If confirmed by the Senate, Polite will hold the Criminal...more

Jones Day

No Search Warrant Required for Records of Bitcoin Transactions, the Fifth Circuit Holds

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The Situation: While investigating a website for criminal activities, federal agents traced Bitcoin transactions and issued a subpoena to a virtual-currency exchange to identify customers of the site. Using that information,...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

IRS CI Highlights International Efforts to Tackle Cryptocurrency Abuse, Money Laundering and Tax Evasion

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ABA Tax Fraud Panel to Discuss IRS CI and Crypto Criminals - The Internal Revenue Service – Criminal Investigation (IRS CI) has made it clear that it is focusing on the abuse of digital currencies to further tax evasion,...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

U.S. Treasury and DOJ Targets “Evil Corp”

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Organization Excels at Niche Branding but Stumbles in Avoiding Enforcement - The first paragraph of the press release sums it up: Today the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

IRS-Criminal Investigations: going on 100 years and still looking at Tax Crimes!

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On November 11, 2018, the IRS released its Criminal Investigation Annual Report as it begins its 2019 fiscal year and its 100th anniversary as a law enforcement agency. IRS-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) is a federal agency...more

Bracewell LLP

CLOUD Act Aims for Clear Skies: Bipartisan CLOUD Act Seeks to Clarify Law Enforcement Access to Overseas Data

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In October 2017, the Supreme Court granted the Department of Justice’s petition to review the Second Circuit’s decision that limits the reach of warrants issued under the Stored Communications Act (“SCA”). Specifically, the...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Connecticut State Police Lead the Way in Training Electronic Storage Device Dogs

The Connecticut State Police have taken the lead in training police dogs skilled in the art of detecting hidden data. As more and more crimes involve electronic evidence, criminal enforcement agencies throughout the country...more

King & Spalding

DOJ Criminal Chief Continues Push For More Access To Encrypted Data

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On June 6, 2016, during a speech at a Cybercrime Symposium co-organized by the Centers for Strategic and International Studies and the Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section,...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Hacker arrests and prosecutions update

We previously reported that alleged Ukranian hacker Sergey Vovnenko, also known as “Flycracker,” “Fly” and “Darklife” was extradited from Italy, arrested and charged in New Jersey federal court for his part in disbursing the...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Chinese government arrests hackers

We have been reporting on the success of the Department of Justice in combatting cybercrime through prosecutions of hackers. But we never expected this. Following Chinese President Xi’s visit to the U.S., and for the first...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

CIA Director’s email account hacked

An anonymous hacker has contacted the New York Post to explain how he was able to hack into the CIA Director’s AOL email account. According to several reports, a high school student and his two friends implemented social...more

The Volkov Law Group

Checking In on Sanctions Enforcement

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The Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control continues to ramp up sanctions enforcement. Even with the likely relaxation of the Iran and Cuba sanctions, OFAC has been continuing its aggressive enforcement...more

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