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Sophisticated Crypto Theft Targeting High-Net-Worth Individuals

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A recent court case has unveiled a new level of sophistication in attacks targeting high-net-worth cryptocurrency holders. In a meticulously orchestrated scheme, hackers managed to steal more than $40 million in bitcoin from...more

Bennett Jones LLP

Don’t Be the Next Victim of a BEC Scam

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Businesses are increasingly defrauded through common scams known as business email compromise scams (BEC scams) for which they do not have insurance to cover the resulting losses. Fortunately, there are easy-to-implement...more

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How to Defend Against Identity Theft This Tax Season

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In recent years, identity theft cases have surged, especially during tax season. According to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in 2022, the federal agency identified and prevented USD 5.7 billion in tax-related fraud, and...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #421 – Threat Actors Using DocuSign API to Send Fake Invoices

DocuSign is a great and efficient way to obtain authentic signatures for contracts and invoices. As with other efficient tools, threat actors will and have found a way to use the DocuSign API to send fake invoices to divert...more

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[Webcast Transcript] Anatomy of a Business Email Compromise

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Editor’s Note: This webcast brings together some of HaystackID’s top experts to dissect the intricacies of Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks—a rapidly growing threat impacting organizations globally. During the...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: October 2024

23andMe agreed to pay $30 million and provide three years of security monitoring to settle a lawsuit accusing the genetics testing company of failing to protect the privacy of 6.9 million customers whose personal information...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #393 – Phishing, Smishing, Vishing and Qrishing Schemes Continue to Dupe Users

The recent increase in smishing and vishing schemes is prompting me to remind readers of schemes designed to trick users into providing credentials to perpetrate fraud. We have previously written on phishing, smishing,...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

BakerHostetler

Deeper Dive into the Data

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Every year, BakerHostetler collects and analyzes various metrics about the incident response matters we handle. In 2022, we handled over 1,160 incidents. The most striking trends we saw across those incidents were an overall...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

Companies That Pay Hackers May Be Able to Recoup Their Losses

Where companies are victimized by ransomware or email scams, their losses arise from payments made by an officer or employee of the company. In the case of ransomware, a company’s files are held hostage pending payment...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Threat Groups Using Translation Tools in Phishing Attacks

It used to be that one of the sure ways to identify a phishing email was to notice grammatical errors or broken English in the text of the communication. Thanks to new translation tools like Google Translate, that are...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Forestall Phishing Forays with Sophisticated Domain Name Watching

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With the holiday season upon us and online goods and services flying off the virtual shelves, companies should not lose sight of the increased risk of phishing and cyberattacks. Society’s reliance on online commerce means...more

Genova Burns LLC

Potential Harm Enough For Class Action to Proceed in Data Breach Litigation

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The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has given new life to a putative class action suit led by a former employee of a company that suffered a ransomware attack, leading to her sensitive information being released onto the Dark...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Weekly IRS Roundup November 29 – December 3, 2021

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Presented below is our summary of significant Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and relevant tax matters for the week of November 29, 2021 – December 3, 2021... November 29, 2021: The IRS published a news release...more

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FBI Releases IC3 2020 Internet Crime Report Showing Record Increase in Cybercrime

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The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (“IC3”) recently released its annual report, the 2020 Internet Crime Report (“Report”), which gathers statistics from nearly 800,000 complaints of suspected cybercrimes that the...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #256 – COVID-19 Scams Continue to Plague U.S. Public

It has been widely reported that hackers are taking advantage of the pandemic to perpetrate scams and frauds. We have seen attacks against workers of companies through phishing emails that include an attachment or link...more

Furia Rubel Communications, Inc.

Cybersecurity: How to Protect Yourself and Your Company

Just recently, Equifax had the largest-ever settlement for a data breach. They are to pay at least $575 million, and potentially as much as $700 million, to settle allegations over its massive 2017 data breach. What we tell...more

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