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Inside CyberCX’s 2025 DFIR Report: MFA Failures and Espionage Risks Revealed

HaystackID on 4/30/2025

The DFIR 2025 Threat Report from CyberCX offers a firsthand view of how cyber adversaries adapted and accelerated their tactics in 2024. Covering incidents across Australia, New Zealand, North America, and Europe, the report...more

Ransom Payments at a Historic Low According to Report

Alston & Bird on 2/21/2025

On February 4, 2025, Coveware, Inc. released its quarterly ransomware report for the fourth quarter of 2024, and identified that the percentage of victims paying ransoms fell to a historic low of 25%. While the average...more

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

Ankura on 2/11/2025

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

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

Ward and Smith, P.A. on 2/3/2025

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

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

Ankura on 1/23/2025

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

AI, Cybersecurity, and Digital Infrastructure—Emerging Risks and Strategies for 2025

Baker Botts L.L.P. on 12/4/2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) adoption and the exponential growth of data centers are combining to create new opportunities for cybercriminals that corporations need to be aware of and to plan to combat. As discussed in the...more

[Webcast Transcript] Anatomy of a Business Email Compromise

HaystackID on 11/6/2024

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

Cybercrime Trends: A Midyear Review

Dorsey & Whitney LLP on 7/25/2024

Cybercriminals continue to outpace the best efforts of regulators, law enforcement, and cybersecurity professionals. Recent reporting from the Federal Bureau of Investigation demonstrates that cybercriminals are increasingly...more

Immediate vs. Slow Burn Risks: A Balanced Cybersecurity Strategy

NAVEX on 4/25/2024

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

Key Insights for School District Leaders

Bricker Graydon LLP on 4/19/2024

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

Decoded Technology Law Insights, V 5, Issue 3, April 2024

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 4/9/2024

Using AI to Build Cyber Resilience for Critical Infrastructure - "Cyber resilience serves as a literal survival strategy, offering a framework to detect threats, understand attacks, recover swiftly, and adapt to...more

Data Breaches up 72% From Record High: Cyber Incident Readiness Must be Top of Mind

Epiq on 3/13/2024

“Protect your data! Breaches are on the rise!” These warnings seem to be everywhere – and rightfully so. Threat actors are sophisticated and new breach trends are constantly materializing. Awareness is no longer enough. It...more

5 GRC Trends and Resolutions for a More Secure 2024

Mitratech Holdings, Inc on 1/17/2024

Elevate your resilience in the new year by understanding top GRC trends, patterns, and best practices across AI, TPRM, cyber risk, and more. As we step into 2024, technological advancements and an increasingly connected —...more

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

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx on 12/21/2023

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

Cybersecurity in Video Games & Esports

Saul Ewing LLP on 10/26/2023

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

7 Key Practices Companies Should Implement to Ensure Cyber Safety in the Age of Remote Work

Flaster Greenberg PC on 7/13/2023

Cybersecurity is critically important in the age of remote work. With more people working from home and accessing company systems and data remotely, the potential for cyberattacks and data breaches has increased...more

Deeper Dive into the Data

BakerHostetler on 5/24/2023

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

Ransomware: The Top 5 Myths and Misconceptions

Ankura on 5/15/2023

Ransomware has become a major threat to businesses across the world as cyber-attacks are becoming increasingly sophisticated, resulting in devastating financial damage for companies that fall victim. Not only are important...more

Notable Cyberattack Methods and Common Targets of 2022

Ankura on 4/21/2023

Cyberattacks are a constant threat to businesses, organizations, governments, and individuals worldwide. In order to stay secure against cybercriminal activity, it is essential to understand the various cyberattack methods...more

The Breaches and Threat Actors that Defined 2022

Ankura on 3/22/2023

In 2022, threat actors and hacker groups made their mark on the digital world by causing unprecedented data breaches that left organizations of all sizes and sectors vulnerable. Even with improved cybersecurity measures in...more

Ankura CTIX FLASH Update - January 2023 - 5

Ankura on 1/30/2023

Recent Uptick in Malicious Microsoft OneNote Attachments Identified in Phishing Campaigns - Security researchers have noted a recent uptick in phishing campaigns utilizing Microsoft OneNote attachments to spread malware....more

Ransomware Attacks Against Healthcare Providers Continue to Increase

Fox Rothschild LLP on 1/20/2023

The systems healthcare providers use to provide safe and reliable patient care, and their confidential patient information, provide attractive targets for hackers using ransomware to extort payment....more

Decoded: Technology Law Insights - Issue 24, 2022

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 12/16/2022

North Carolina Power Outage Points to Homeland Security Long-Documented Threats to US Power Grid - “Moore County blackouts serve as reminder that nation’s electricity infrastructure could be vulnerable targets for domestic...more

Cyber Insurance Requirements: The Next Frontier

Woodruff Sawyer on 12/1/2022

Cyber insurance buyers can expect stricter underwriting standards in the face of evolving cyberattacks. Cybercriminals are bypassing existing layers of security using advanced tactics and continuously adapting their...more

Cybersecurity Risks for Business- A Primer on Prevention

Goldberg Segalla on 10/10/2022

As technology evolves, companies are finding ways to become more nimble and conduct business more efficiently — over remote networks, email on handheld devices, the cloud, and on cellphones. Yet, as technology advances, so...more

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