The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its annual overview of insights from the Cyber Coordination Groups (CCG). Firms face an increasing threat of cyber attacks, particularly since the Covid-19 pandemic and...more
Killnet, a Russian-speaking hacking group that emerged shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine, took responsibility last week for deploying a denial-of-service attack that temporarily took several U.S. states’ websites offline....more
Anti-Cheat, Code-Signed Driver Abused to Bypass Privileges and Deploy Ransomware - Trend Micro researchers observed a ransomware infection in late July 2022 that involved a code-signed driver called "mhyprot2.sys", which...more
The televised “thud” of explosions in Ukraine has an ominous but deceptively distant tone. For many organizations the hostilities are closer at hand, in the form of cyberattacks that could spread beyond the Russian-Ukrainian...more
Russia began a physical invasion of Ukraine Wednesday night, and as the United States responded with sanctions, the threat of cyberattacks against American companies became more acute. Major American businesses – from banks...more
On July 19, 2021, the Federal Bureau of Investigations issued a Private Industry Notification to service providers and “entities associated with the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics that cyber actors who wish to disrupt the event...more
Recent industry feedback published by the UK Financial Conduct Authority shares insights on the identification and management of cybersecurity challenges and mitigation strategies for financial services firms. The feedback...more
Targeted hacks, phishing, malware, viruses and other attacks aimed at information technology systems are an everyday occurrence. While the first line of defense is trained personnel, businesses need to be aware of the...more
In November, Tyler wrote about insurance issues raised by both the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act, which goes into effect on January 1, 2020. California’s...more
The month of August saw two federal criminal convictions of individuals involved in significant cyberattacks. In Boston, a federal jury convicted Martin Gottesfeld of one count of conspiracy to intentionally damage a...more
Bitfinex, a global digital currency exchange, paused trading last week when it experienced a distributed denial-of-service attack. During the pause in trading, it announced to users that “Bitfinex is currently under extreme...more
It is commonly said that cyberspace is the “Wild West,” a realm where there are no laws and no sheriff in sight. Even acknowledging that this view contains a degree of hyperbole, it is unfortunately no less true after last...more
Kromtech Security has reported that the sensitive personal information of more than 25,000 investors of Bezop cryptocurrency was exposed when a MongoDB database was left unsecured. The security incident is reported to be...more
The recent ransomware attack on the City of Atlanta highlights the fact that the threat of ransomware affects all organizations, regardless of the nature of their industry, business, or operations, and that political...more
Industry publication Data Breach Today reports hackers are increasingly exploiting weak Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) credentials to launch ransomware attacks. “Many enterprises use remote desktop protocol to remotely...more
Two actions in the past few weeks reflect the continuing government involvement in and concern over the security of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Attacks using connected devices have highlighted security vulnerabilities...more
The recent distributed denial of service (“DDOS”) attack on domain name service provider Dyn is likely to result in greater scrutiny by regulators and lawmakers of the potential risks associated with the increasing use of the...more
On November 16, 2016 the House Committee on Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade and the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology held a hearing on “Understanding the Role of Connected...more
Baker Donelson's Data Protection, Privacy and Cybersecurity attorneys are pleased to introduce a series of client alerts that will address significant cyber-threats to your business and how you can protect yourself by...more
On Oct. 21, 2016, an extremely large distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Dyn prevented many internet users on the East Coast of the U.S. from accessing websites such as Netflix, PayPal, Spotify and Twitter for...more
The recent massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that caused major internet outages was led by an army of security cameras, digital video recorders, and other Internet of Things ("IoT") devices that had been...more
Beginning early on October 21, 2016, Dyn, a New Hampshire based internet service company, was the victim of three distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The first attack began at 7am ET and was resolved within about...more
There’s no denying that the present-day Internet, while extraordinary, is increasingly scary. Cyber attacks of various types continue to escalate across the globe. As stated by one recent commentator: “Cybercrime is raging...more