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Do You Know Who Your Employee Is? Mitigating DPRK IT Worker Risk

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North Korean IT operatives are infiltrating U.S. and Western companies using stolen or fabricated identities, VPNs, and U.S.-based co-conspirators to gain unauthorized access to corporate systems. These insider threats pose...more

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Cybercriminals Are Moving into the Cloud and Making Your Active Directory Their New Home

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Financially motivated cybercriminals are increasingly targeting Cloud environments in their ransomware and/or extortion attacks. The attack activity of two (2) threat groups in particular – Octo Tempest (AKA Scattered Spider)...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

The Columbus City Hall Cyber Attack: Key Takeaways

This past July, the City of Columbus, Ohio experienced a significant data breach. Hackers were able to breach Columbus’ network and gained access to private information of city employees and residents. Initially, the City...more

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Protecting Educational Data: Insights from the PowerSchool Breach

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The PowerSchool data breach, discovered on December 28, 2024, serves as a powerful reminder of the persistent cybersecurity challenges confronting the education sector. PowerSchool, a leading provider of education technology,...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Rhysida Hits American Addiction Centers + Publishes 2.8TB of Data

American Addiction Centers (AAC) has notified 422,424 individuals that their personal information was stolen in a cyber-attack attributed to the Rhysida criminal organization. The incident was discovered on September 26,...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

The U.S. Govenment Charges China-Based Hacker for Exploiting Zero-Day Vulnerability

On December 10, 2024, the federal government unsealed an indictment in federal court in Indiana, charging Chinese national Guan Tianfeng (Guan) for his role in allegedly breaking into thousands of Sophos Ltd. (Sophos)...more

Baker Donelson

How Remote Hiring Practices Could Lead to Infiltration of Your Organization: North Korea Operatives are Exploiting Remote Hiring...

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In today's fast-paced digital world, businesses often seek to access a global pool of skilled professionals by turning to remote talent to fill gaps in their IT needs. Although this practice has many advantages, it also...more

K2 Integrity

Don’t Let Cyber Scams Ruin the Holidays: Keep the Holiday Season Festive for Your Organization

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“It’s the most wonderful time of the year”—or is it? Unfortunately, it can be the most wonderful time for criminals, who try to prey on financial generosity through scams and frauds. Extra vigilance is needed during the...more

J.S. Held

The Dark Side of Artificial Intelligence: Scams and Frauds

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AI is technology that enables computers to simulate human intelligence and problem-solving skills, whereas deepfake is synthetic media that has been digitally manipulated to replace and mimic one person’s likeness. AI has...more

Perkins Coie

‘Tis the Season… for Cybercriminals: A Holiday Reminder for Retailers

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As the holiday shopping season kicks into high gear, it also becomes a prime opportunity for cybercriminals to target retailers, their suppliers, and their customers.  As The Hacker News reports, criminal use of artificial...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Scary Halloween News: Jumpy Pisces Using Play Ransomware to Attack Organizations

Unit 42 recently reported that it has identified “Jumpy Pisces, a North Korean state-sponsored threat group associated with the Reconnaissance General Bureau of the Korean People’s Army, as a key player in a recent ransomware...more

Hinckley Allen

Today’s Menacing Cyber Threat Environment: What Organizations Need to Know to Quickly Respond to a Data Breach and Reduce the...

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As the last two years have clearly demonstrated, no organization is immune from cyberattacks.  Indeed, numerous studies have reported that a majority of businesses have been impacted by at least one cyberattack over the past...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #418 – New Phishing Scheme Uses Scarce Weight Loss Drugs as Hook

Scammers are always looking for new ways to dupe victims. If you battle your weight, you think about it a lot and are always looking for easier ways to lose some pounds. There is no easy way, but we are always looking for an...more

Allen Matkins

SEC Continues Its Persecution Of Crime Victims

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More than a decade ago, I expressed concern about the Securities and Exchange Commission's predilection for targeting victims of crimes.   That concern related to an enforcement action against a company that had been...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 #416 – Impersonation is the Most Prolific Phishing Tactic in 2024

A new report published by the software company Egress this month, Phishing Threat Trends Report, is a must-read. It outlines the proliferation of phishing toolkits on the dark web (that basically allows any Tom, Dick, and...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Federal Cybersecurity Requirements Ought Not Be Ignored by Contractors

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Since 2016, the federal government has implemented numerous procurement regulations and associated contract clauses to address cybersecurity by requiring contractors to adopt various controls and standards to protect...more

Woodruff Sawyer

The Voluntary Parting Exclusion: What You Need to Know

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The US Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received more than 880,000 cybercrime complaints in 2023. Overall financial losses from cybercrime last year reached $12.5 billion, a record-setting year-over-year increase of...more

Epstein Becker & Green

Why Executive Teams Should Prepare for the Cybersecurity and Fraud Risks of Deepfakes

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The widespread availability of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools has enabled the growing use of “deepfakes,” whereby the human voice and likeness can be replicated seamlessly such that impersonations are impossible to detect...more

J.S. Held

Benefits of a vCISO in the Age of AI-Driven Cyberattacks

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Cyberattacks powered by artificial intelligence have become more sophisticated as bad actors utilize machine learning to analyze vulnerabilities, automate exploits, and outpace traditional security measures. Through the use...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #411 – Phishing Attacks Increased 40% in 2023

Everyone thinks they can spot a phishing email. If true, we would not see so many security incidents, data breaches, and ransomware attacks. The statistics are overwhelming that phishing emails are a significant cause of data...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Notifying Law Enforcement of Security Incidents - Dear Mary – Incidents + Investigations Cybersecurity Advice Column

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“Dear Mary” is Troutman Pepper’s Incidents + Investigations team’s advice column. Here, you will find Mary’s answers to questions about anything and everything cyber-related — data breaches, forensic investigations, how to...more

Morgan Lewis

The Framework of a Strong Family Office Cybersecurity Strategy

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Cybersecurity is a critical element of effective family office operations management, yet many family offices need to further prepare for the range of cybersecurity threats they may face. Family offices manage significant...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Countries Poised to Adopt New Cybersecurity Measures After UN Adopts Major Cybercrime Convention

On August 7, 2024, after three years of negotiation, the United Nation’s Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communications Technologies for Criminal...more

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'Ransom Cartel' Leader Indicted: A Reminder of Cybercrime’s Growing Reach

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The recent indictment of Maksim Silnikau, a Belarusian and Ukrainian national, is a clear reminder that cybercriminals are becoming more sophisticated and bold....more

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