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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Gone Phishing – Vigilance in the New Scam Era - Kattison Avenue | Issue 12

"Thank you for your order." "We tried delivering your package." We have all seen these subject lines in our inbox, but some are not so innocent. Business impersonation scams are not new, but some of their tricks are. These...more

Guidepost Solutions LLC

Defending Your Law Firm Against Cyber Threats

In an increasingly digitized world, law firms are prime targets for sophisticated cyber threats that can result in substantial financial losses and reputational damage. Recently, a prominent law firm, esteemed for its...more

Guidepost Solutions LLC

Cyber Bullets for Small Law Firms

In our rapidly evolving digital landscape, all organizations are facing an onslaught of cybersecurity threats. According to recent research, victims of cyber attacks paid out a record $1.1 billion last year and have already...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Don’t Take The Bait: How To Prevent A Phishing Attack

It’s late Friday afternoon and the COO of your company emails you with an urgent request to send him the HR spreadsheet you have been working on. Frantic, you immediately reply and send him the requested information. But it...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

AI, Phishing Attacks, Healthcare, and a $480,000 OCR Settlement under HIPAA

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Phishing has long been a favorite tactic for threat actors (hackers) to commence a cyberattack. The rapid expansion of more adaptable and available artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, such as natural language...more

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As If Bank Failures Aren’t Enough – Hackers Are Exploiting the Chaos to Breach Security

The Massachusetts State Police Commonwealth Fusion Center (CFC) believes that cyber actors may use the current bank failures for future phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks. Cyber actors often use current...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Passing the Fraud Loss Hot Potato

The shifts in customer behavior driven by the global COVID pandemic were a boon for digital payments – consumer adoption in the U.S. reached 82% in 2021, up from 78% in 2020 and 72% in 2016. However, the industry "sector"...more

Shutts & Bowen LLP

Ransomware and Phishing Dangers On the Rise

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Internet users have (mostly) learned to avoid scams by supposed Nigerian princes looking to share a vast inheritance, and there has been a rise in awareness of other common signs of phishing attempts, such as poor spelling...more

J.S. Held

How to Avoid the Most Common Causes of Cybersecurity Incidents

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Cybercrime is at an all-time high, with just the cybercrime insurance industry alone expecting to grow from $8 billion globally in 2020 to $20 billion by 2025.1 Although cyber liability insurance policies now exist to help...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Mailchimp Suffers a Data Breach

This week we learned that the email and social media marketing company Mailchimp suffered a data breach that allowed an intruder to view 319 Mailchimp accounts. According to multiple sources, audience data were accessed from...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Microsoft Warns of Tricky O365 Phishing Attack

If you are an organization that uses Microsoft Office 365 as your email platform, be on the lookout for a new tricky phishing attack recently used by cyber criminals. ...more

Porter Hedges LLP

Cyber Alert: Business Email Compromise Schemes Increasing

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We’ve all heard the sad story: A transaction is about to close. The buyer is preparing to wire funds to the seller. Unbeknownst to the buyer, a hacker has hijacked the parties’ email communications to replace the wiring...more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Privacy Perils: Respect Your Elders

It is a commonly-held belief that younger, more tech-savvy individuals are less likely to engage in risky cyber practices than their “senior,” pre-internet counterparts. Recent evidence, however, indicates to the contrary...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Client Alert: High Profile Phishing Incident Demonstrates Continued Need for Social Engineering Insurance

Media outlets recently reported that Barbara Corcoran, one of the judges on the popular ABC show "Shark Tank," was the victim of a "spear phishing" scam....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Ransomware Attacks Predicted to Occur Every 11 Seconds in 2021 with a Cost of $20 Billion

Confirming what we are seeing in the field, cybersecurity firm Cybersecurity Ventures has predicted that, globally, businesses in 2021 will fall victim to a ransomware attack every 11 seconds, down from every 14 seconds in...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - February 2020 #2

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Ransomware Attacks Predicted to Occur Every 11 Seconds in 2021 with a Cost of $20 Billion - Confirming what we are seeing in the field, cybersecurity firm Cybersecurity Ventures has predicted that, globally, businesses in...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #226 – Beware – Well-Known Brands Used for Phishing Schemes

A new study by Check Point Research shows that cyber criminals are using well-known brands to lure victims into clicking on nefarious links, providing personal information or credentials, or getting users to transfer money....more

Zelle  LLP

Conflicts in Circuits’ Approach to Email Scams Hold Lessons

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With unprecedented activity online, cybercrime is growing in frequency, sophistication and aggregate effect. Despite the increased visibility of cybercrime, cybersecurity continues to lag behind this curve. Cybercriminals...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Iranian Cyber-Attacks and the End of Support for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008

After the killing of Qassem Soleimani on January 3, 2020, by the U.S. government, the cybersecurity news industry has been abuzz about whether Iran will engage in cyber terrorism, and if so, to what degree, as part of its...more

King & Spalding

AI Driven "Deepfakes" Expose Holes in Corporate Compliance Programs: The Road to Recovery

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Artificial intelligence (“AI”) has made astounding advancements in recent years. Driven by incredible computing power, AI has the potential to change nearly every industry. AI is touted as having the potential to reduce...more

Holland & Hart LLP

3 Tips to Protect Real Estate Agents & Firms from Cybercrime

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Did you know Americans lost nearly $150 million dollars to real estate internet scams last year? That makes real estate cyber crime a greater risk to Americans than identity theft ($100 million in losses) or credit card fraud...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - July 2019 #4

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Security research firm Gigamon has reported that the nasty cybercriminal group FIN8 may have reappeared in June after a two-year silence. FIN8 is known for implementing malware on point of sale systems to steal credit card...more

Fisher Phillips

Don’t Take the Bait! “Spear Phishing” and “Whaling” Take Scams to the Next Level

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For several years now, we’ve been alerting employers about the dangers of phishing scams that attempt to obtain private and personal information from employers... Many of these scams rear their ugly head around tax season,...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Strategies for Protecting Against Vendor Payment Fraud

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Cybercrime is an ever-increasing threat from which manufacturers are not immune. Although reliable statistics are not available, one particular type of scheme that seems to be on the rise is vendor payment fraud. In cases of...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Botnet Necurs Turns Its Focus On Banks

Just days after the FBI issued a private warning to the banking industry, the botnet network known as Necurs began a spamming campaign that targeted the banking industry. The activity was discovered by the security research...more

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