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Deeper Dive: Understanding the 2023-24 Crypto Threat Landscape

BakerHostetler on 8/8/2024

As the Web3 and digital assets ecosystem continues to grow, hacks, scams and other threats remain a major cause for concern and a potential impediment to broader adoption. Data from various sources indicates that after a year...more

Email Scam Losses May Find Recourse Via Cyber Or Business Interruption Coverage

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP on 1/27/2023

Losses arising from email scams are usually covered, if at all, under a company’s crime policy. But a recent decision from The District Court in Minnesota suggests that recourse may also be found under an insured’s cyber or...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - January 2023 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 1/27/2023

CYBERSECURITY - Chick-Fil-A Sued for Sharing Data through Meta Pixel - While plaintiffs’ attorneys were initially focused late last year on suing health care entities for using Pixel and other tracking technology to share...more

Scams and Viruses: Which Email Attachments Are Safe to Open?

Woodruff Sawyer on 8/26/2022

Email scams and viruses are nothing new—threats like phishing emails and malware have been around since the days when services like AOL still dominated the internet and email landscape. However, while technology has made a...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - August 2022 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 8/24/2022

CYBERSECURITY - CISA + MS-ISAC Alert: Threat Actors Exploiting Zimbra Collaboration Suite - On August 16, 2022, CISA (the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) and the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - June 2022 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 6/10/2022

CYBERSECURITY - Joint Advisory Warns of Chinese-Sponsored Attacks on Telecommunications Companies - A joint advisory issued June 7, 2022, by the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, FBI and the National...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - April 2022 #4

Robinson & Cole LLP on 4/22/2022

CYBERSECURITY - Intelligence Points to Likely Russian Attacks on Critical Infrastructure - The cybersecurity authorities of the United States (including CISA, FBI, NSA and DOE), Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - April 2022 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 4/8/2022

CYBERSECURITY - State Department Establishes Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy - The Department of State’s new Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy (CDP) commenced operations on April 4, 2022. According to an...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - January 2021 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 1/15/2021

CYBERSECURITY - Ubiquiti Notifies Customers of Breach - Ubiquiti, a manufacturer of products used for networks such as routers, webcams and mesh networks, announced this week that an unauthorized access to its systems...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - December 2020 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 12/24/2020

CYBERSECURITY - C-Suite + Managers Pose Higher Security Risk to Organizations - You executives and managers who are in my age group (that is, you didn’t grow up with mobile devices and computers) listen up. According to...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - August 2020 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 8/28/2020

CYBERSECURITY - U.S. Organizations Doing Business in China Warned of Malware in Tax Software - The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have issued a joint...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - April 2020 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 4/19/2020

Sodinokibi Hackers Switch Payment Mechanism to Monero - The hackers behind the Sodinokibi/REvil ransomware have reportedly switched their demands for payment from Bitcoin or Ethereum to Monero cryptocurrency to try to...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - October 2019

Robinson & Cole LLP on 10/7/2019

Consistent with our experience, security firm McAfee has confirmed in a report that ransomware attacks have doubled in 2019. Medical providers have been hit hard this year, and one provider, Wood Ranch Medical, located in...more

SEC 21(a) Report Warns Public Company Email Scam Victims of Bigger Problems Than Stolen Money

Perkins Coie on 10/26/2018

Known by many names, including business email compromise fraud, CEO or CFO fraud, impersonation attacks, or “Man-in-the-Email” scams, cyber-related frauds involving spoofed or otherwise compromised business electronic...more

Don’t Let Spoofing Fool You – SEC Says Internal Accounting Controls Should Address Cyber Threats

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC on 10/19/2018

On October 16, 2018, the SEC released an Investigative Report detailing recent email spoofing schemes that caused nine public companies to lose a total of nearly $100 million. Building on its February 2018 guidance about the...more

SEC Warns Companies of Potential Internal Accounting Control Violations with Business Email Compromise

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP on 10/19/2018

• The SEC issued guidance in the form of a rare “21(a) report” this week after investigating a series of email frauds impacting 9 unnamed companies. • These email-based frauds, referred to as “CEO scams” or “vendor scams,”...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - September 2018 #3

Robinson & Cole LLP on 9/24/2018

Schneider Electric recently issued a consumer warning that it mistakenly shipped to its customers USB drives that were infected with malware. Schneider Electric stated in its alert that “Schneider Electric has determined that...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - September 2018 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 9/17/2018

We all remember Kronos—the malicious malware that was sold by Russian underground forums in 2014 for $7,000. If you bought it, you were promised updates and development of new modules. The Kronos developers recently released...more

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - August 2018

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP on 9/7/2018

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine Brazil's new data protection regulation, the French data protection authority's warning to two companies of potential GDPR violations and the U.S....more

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