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Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Social Engineering + Stolen Credential Threats Continue to Dominate Cyber-Attacks

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CrowdStrike recently published its 2025 Global Threat Report, which among other conclusions, emphasized that social engineering tactics aimed to steal credentials grew an astounding 442% in the second half of 2024....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

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Data Privacy Insights Part 2: The Most Common Types of Data Breaches Businesses Face

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As part of Data Privacy Awareness Week, Ward and Smith is spotlighting the most common types of data breaches that businesses encounter. In Part 1, we explored the industries most vulnerable to cyberattacks, highlighting the...more

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Be Wary: Sophisticated Scam Emails Impersonating IP Attorneys

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Business owners should be aware of a new email scam circulating impersonating an intellectual property (IP) representative, containing false information, and offering trademark assistance. This nefarious email scam is sent by...more

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Data Privacy Insights Part 1: North Carolina Ranks High in Cybercrime Complaints

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The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report sheds light on the growing threat of cybercrime, both nationally and within North Carolina. The state ranks among the top 15 in the U.S. for cybercrime complaints,...more

Ankura

The Rise of AI-Powered Cyber Attacks: How Indian Businesses Can Prepare

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As the digital landscape evolves, so do the threats that accompany it. The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has fundamentally transformed the nature of cybercrime, enabling attackers to execute more sophisticated and...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

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

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

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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

K2 Integrity

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Creating and Managing Long, Unique Passwords

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month was established more than 20 years ago to provide resources to enable organizations and their employees to stay safer and more secure online...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: October 2024

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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

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Privacy Tip #416 – Impersonation is the Most Prolific Phishing Tactic in 2024

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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

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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

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

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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

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CrowdStrike Customers Targeted by Threat Actors Using Fake Help Websites

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If you are a customer of CrowdStrike, you are working on recovering from the outage that occurred on July 19, 2024. As if that isn’t enough disruption, CrowdStrike is warning customers that threat actors are taking advantage...more

Hogan Lovells

Adversary-in-the-Middle attacks can subvert passkey protections

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Backup authentication methods create a vulnerability in passkey protection to adversary-in-the-middle attacks. Security protections from passkey authentication can still potentially be subverted by attackers....more

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Preserving Forensic Artifacts Following Incident Detection - 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

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Privacy, Data and Cybersecurity Quick Clicks | Issue 17

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Katten's Privacy, Data and Cybersecurity Quick Clicks is a monthly newsletter highlighting the latest news and legal developments involving privacy, data and cybersecurity issues across the globe....more

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Best Practices for Reducing the Cost of a Cyber Incident for Small to Mid-Sized Businesses

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Originally published in American Business Magazine - May 2024. Many small- and mid-sized business owners believe that they are not prime targets for a cyber breach and that threat actors only go after large companies. This...more

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Immediate vs. Slow Burn Risks: A Balanced Cybersecurity Strategy

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The consequences of a cyberattack can be catastrophic, as we saw in the previous blog of this series. Cybersecurity is a business-wide responsibility that demands a proactive strategy extending far beyond technical solutions...more

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Key Insights for School District Leaders

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It’s not getting any easier. In fact, “for K-12 schools, cyber incidents are so prevalent that, on average, there is more than one incident per school day.” While high-profile cyber threats like ransomware and data...more

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Security Snippets: Espionage group expands global phishing campaign

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Russia-linked threat actor Fancy Bear is conducting a wave of phishing campaigns impersonating entities across Europe, Americas, and Asia, focusing on Ukraine-related targets....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #392 – Legitimate Platforms and AI Used to Bypass MFA

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Darktrace researchers have outlined a particularly scary scenario of how threat actors are bypassing MFA and using artificial intelligence to launch sophisticated phishing attacks against users....more

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OCR Will Focus on You if You Don’t Focus on Cybersecurity

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With a couple of “firsts,” the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is signaling that it is cracking down on healthcare organizations that fail to identify and address cybersecurity...more

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Senior Savvy: Wise Owls Navigating Cyber Scams

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As the relentless march of technology continues, scams have evolved into cunning traps, presenting a challenge to individuals of all ages. Among the great tapestry of age groups, despite the wealth of experience and...more

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Cybersecurity in Video Games & Esports

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In this episode of “Lawyers With Game,” host Darius Gambino from Saul Ewing’s Video Gaming and Esports Practice chats with colleagues Sandy Bilus and Evan Foster from Saul Ewing’s Cybersecurity & Privacy group about data...more

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