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Federal Bureau of Investigation Data Breach Ransomware

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: September 2024

The HHS Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation (WPS) are notifying 946,801 people whose protected health information or other personally identifiable information...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: July 2024

Pennsylvania-based Geisinger Health System said it experienced a breach impacting more than 1.27 million patients when a former employee of vendor Nuance Communications Inc., a Microsoft Corp. subsidiary, accessed patient...more

Nelson Hardiman, LLP

Hacking and Healing: Nation-States, Cyber Attacks, and Healthcare Law

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Modern warfare is no longer restricted to physical battlefields and professional military. Countries like North Korea and Russia have few qualms about using cyberspace to reach well beyond their physical borders to target...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Cybersecurity in 2024: Ten Top Issues to Consider

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As we enter the New Year, Wiley has looked back at the top cyber issues for 2023 and what they mean for 2024. Last year, we saw the rollout of the National Cybersecurity Strategy—which outlined a new era of cyber oversight—as...more

Foley Hoag LLP

FBI and CISA Issue Advisory on Scattered Spider Ransomware Attacks

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Large companies holding sensitive data – including financial services, telecommunications, business process outsourcing, hospitality, and cryptocurrency firms – as well as their IT helpdesks, are increasingly being targeted...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Urgent Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on Atlassian Vulnerability Issued

The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, FBI, and MS-ISAC recently released an urgent Joint Advisory on the Atlassian Confluence Vulnerability CVE-2023-22515. According to the Alert, “this critical vulnerability...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

CISA + FBI Issue Joint Advisory on AvosLocker Ransomware

The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on October 11, 2023, urging companies (particularly those in the critical...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: October 2023

Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 10 (October, 2023) Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals will pay California $49 million to resolve allegations that they unlawfully disposed of hazardous waste,...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Joint Advisory Warns of Snatch Ransomware

The FBI and CISA issued a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory “#StopRansomware: Snatch Ransomware” on September 20, 2023. The Advisory outlines the indicators of compromise and observed tactics, techniques, and procedures of Snatch...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Joint Advisory on MOVEit Transfer Vulnerability Published

CISA and FBI have issued a joint advisory on the MOVEit transfer vulnerability that should be on the radar of CISOs and IT professionals. The CLOP ransomware organization has been reportedly exploiting an SQL injection...more

Ankura

ESXiArgs Ransomware Campaign Facilitated by Exploiting VMware Vulnerability

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Cybersecurity research agencies around the world are warning organizations using VMware ESXi servers to patch an almost two (2) year old vulnerability to prevent being compromised by threat actors in the "ESXiArgs" ransomware...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

FBI, CISA + MS-ISAC Warn of LockBit 3.0 Ransomware

The FBI, CISA and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) recently released a joint cybersecurity advisory, warning organizations about indicators of compromise, and tactics, techniques, and...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

CISA Announces Launch of Ransomware Prevention Initiative

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced the formation of a new program aimed at identifying and preventing ransomware attacks. The initiative is known as the Ransomware Vulnerability Warning...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, Number 2. Privacy Briefs: February 2023

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 23, no 2 (February 2023) DCH Health Systems, based in Tuscaloosa, Ala., said it fired an employee in December after a routine privacy audit revealed evidence that the worker had accessed some...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

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 11. Privacy Briefs: November 2022

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 11. November 2022 - The second largest nonprofit hospital chain in the U.S. has been grappling with an Oct. 3 cybersecurity incident that affected facilities across the country,...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

FBI + CISA Warn Companies (Especially Health Care) About Zeppelin Ransomware

The FBI and CISA recently issued a Cybersecurity Alert entitled “#StopRansomware: Zeppelin Ransomware” providing an alert to organizations about the proliferation of Zeppelin ransomware attacks and information on the...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Karakurt Extortion Group Auctions Data for Ransom

On June 2, 2022, CISA (the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency), the FBI, the Department of the Treasury and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued a joint Cybersecurity Alert warning companies of the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Report on Patient Privacy Volume 22, Number 6. Privacy Briefs: June 2022

Report on Patient Privacy 22, no. 6 (June, 2022) - A report from the HHS Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) found that in early 2022, ransomware groups increasingly turned to legitimate software during...more

Smith Gambrell Russell

FBI Goes After Cyber Criminals With RAT

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Did you know that the FBI has an Internet Crime Complaint Center called IC3? And did you know that IC3 has a Recovery Asset Team called RAT that, in 2021 alone, used its Financial Fraud Kill Chain (FFKC) to successfully...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Complaints Lodged in FBI’s IC3 Portal Report $6.9B in Losses

The FBI’s Internet Computer Crime Center (IC3) is a portal for individuals and companies to report crimes and losses suffered over the Internet. The FBI keeps track of such crimes to assist victims by providing information...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - February 2022 #3

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CYBERSECURITY - FBI and DHS Warn of Russian Cyberattacks Against Critical Infrastructure - U.S. officials this week warned government agencies, cybersecurity personnel, and operators of critical infrastructure that...more

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FBI Warns Olympics/Paralympics Participants of Cyber “Activities”

On January 31, 2022, the FBI issued a Private Industry Notification entitled “Potential for Malicious Cyber Activities to Disrupt the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics,” warning those associated with the Olympics...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - November 2021

In this month’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the FBI’s warning to companies regarding cyberattacks targeting confidential M&A activity, as well as the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s directive...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - November 2021 #4

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CYBERSECURITY - CISA + FBI Remind Organizations to “Stay Vigilant” During Holiday Season - The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the FBI issued a joint Alert this week, entitled “Reminder for...more

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