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Don’t take the bait: avoiding trademark phishing scams

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The College of Patent Agents & Trademark Agents (CPATA) recently issued an alert regarding a surge in fraudulent emails targeting trademark owners. As is typical of these “phishing” scams, the emails often pressure recipients...more

Arnall Golden Gregory LLP

Business Email Compromise Fraud: Should the Party Best Positioned to Avoid the Fraud Bear the Loss?

Business email compromise (“BEC”) occurs when a payee’s business email account is compromised or impersonated. The threat actor, posing as the payee or its representative (e.g., the head of the accounting department), sends...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Gone Phishing – Vigilance in the New Scam Era - Kattison Avenue | Issue 12

"Thank you for your order." "We tried delivering your package." We have all seen these subject lines in our inbox, but some are not so innocent. Business impersonation scams are not new, but some of their tricks are. These...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

Smishing Y Phishing Inician Las Estafas De La Docena Sucia Anual Del IRS

El 3/28/24, el IRS inició su lista anual de la Docena Sucia (“Dirty Dozen”) con una advertencia para que los contribuyentes estén al tanto de la evolución de las estafas de smishing y phishing diseñadas para robar información...more

Foodman CPAs & Advisors

Smishing And Phishing Scams Kick Off IRS Annual Dirty Dozen

On 3/28/24, the IRS kicked off its annual Dirty Dozen list with a warning for taxpayers to be aware of evolving smishing and phishing scams designed to steal sensitive taxpayer information. Smishing and phishing scams arrive...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

Guidepost Solutions LLC

Cyber Bullets for Small Law Firms

In our rapidly evolving digital landscape, all organizations are facing an onslaught of cybersecurity threats. According to recent research, victims of cyber attacks paid out a record $1.1 billion last year and have already...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Safeguarding Against the Rise of Deepfake Scams: What Employers and Employees Need to Know

A recent deepfake scam has rocked the financial landscape of Hong Kong, demonstrating the extreme lengths to which cybercriminals are willing to go to defraud unsuspecting victims. This sophisticated scheme, which saw...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Business Email Compromise: The Most Prevalent – and Preventable – Cyber Risk

Ransomware attacks that shut business down to zero and data breaches that disclose the personal information of customers, vendors and employees justifiably strike fear in the hearts of executives everywhere. Organizations can...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Don’t Take The Bait: How To Prevent A Phishing Attack

It’s late Friday afternoon and the COO of your company emails you with an urgent request to send him the HR spreadsheet you have been working on. Frantic, you immediately reply and send him the requested information. But it...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

AI, Phishing Attacks, Healthcare, and a $480,000 OCR Settlement under HIPAA

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Phishing has long been a favorite tactic for threat actors (hackers) to commence a cyberattack. The rapid expansion of more adaptable and available artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, such as natural language...more

Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

Be Cyber Aware

Hackers commit financial fraud by creating a fake email address mimicking the vendor’s name and emailing accounts payable saying that the vendor’s account information has been changed. Funds are then sent directly to the...more

K2 Integrity

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Evading Phishing Attacks

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This article concludes K2 Integrity’s mini-series promoting the importance of Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Throughout October, we have been providing tips and solutions to organizations to commemorate the 20-year...more

K2 Integrity

Navigating Work and Travel: Essential Actions for Companies Looking to Keep Their Data Secure

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Many organizations give employees the ability to work from anywhere, adding convenience and flexibility to work and personal schedules. However, with this flexibility comes responsibility—the responsibility to protect the...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Recent Trends in Wire Fraud Scams: Uncovering and Tackling the Latest Tactics in Hong Kong

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Wire fraud threats have been on the rise in recent years, with Hong Kong becoming a particularly attractive destination for fraudsters due to its status as a global financial hub. Criminals are using increasingly...more

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As If Bank Failures Aren’t Enough – Hackers Are Exploiting the Chaos to Breach Security

The Massachusetts State Police Commonwealth Fusion Center (CFC) believes that cyber actors may use the current bank failures for future phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks. Cyber actors often use current...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Be Alert to Scams Perpetrated by Cybercriminals Capitalizing on the Collapse of Silicon Valley Bank

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Following the collapse and federal takeover of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) on Friday, March 10, scam artists wasted no time preying on the bank’s customers. Reports have surfaced of an email scam that initially targeted...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Passing the Fraud Loss Hot Potato

The shifts in customer behavior driven by the global COVID pandemic were a boon for digital payments – consumer adoption in the U.S. reached 82% in 2021, up from 78% in 2020 and 72% in 2016. However, the industry "sector"...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Credit union to pay $558,000 in cyber fraud case

On January 12, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled that a credit union (defendant) is responsible for $558,000 in compensatory damages for processing a payment order that was allegedly induced...more

Troutman Pepper

Wire Fraud Scams: What You Need to Know - The Consumer Finance Podcast

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Please join Consumer Financial Services Partner Chris Willis and his colleagues and fellow Partners Mary Zinsner and Susan Flint as they discuss the current landscape of wire fraud scams in the financial services industry....more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Privacy Peril: Calamity Con Men II

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With hurricane season upon us and after this week’s devastation and heartache from Hurricane Ian, there will be opportunities to help the victims in many ways, including financial assistance...more

Shutts & Bowen LLP

Ransomware and Phishing Dangers On the Rise

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Internet users have (mostly) learned to avoid scams by supposed Nigerian princes looking to share a vast inheritance, and there has been a rise in awareness of other common signs of phishing attempts, such as poor spelling...more

J.S. Held

How to Avoid the Most Common Causes of Cybersecurity Incidents

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Cybercrime is at an all-time high, with just the cybercrime insurance industry alone expecting to grow from $8 billion globally in 2020 to $20 billion by 2025.1 Although cyber liability insurance policies now exist to help...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Mailchimp Suffers a Data Breach

This week we learned that the email and social media marketing company Mailchimp suffered a data breach that allowed an intruder to view 319 Mailchimp accounts. According to multiple sources, audience data were accessed from...more

Clark Hill PLC

Be Vigilant for Fraudulent Emails – Even if They’re From the FBI

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The FBI has reported that an email system was compromised and used to send out thousands of fraudulent emails about a fake cybercrime investigation to over 100,000 inboxes....more

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