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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

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

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

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

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

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

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Scattered Spider Using RansomHub and Qilin Ransomware Against Victims

We previously reported on the concerning mash-up of worldwide cybercriminals, known as Scattered Spider, working together to attack victims. New reports from Microsoft and others indicate that in the second quarter of...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

CrowdStrike Customers Targeted by Threat Actors Using Fake Help Websites

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

J.S. Held

Cybercrime vs. Cybersecurity: Learning the Tactics of Criminals to Protect Your Interests

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Gone are the days where technological solutions were “nice to have” options to provide us with better access to resources and improved process efficiencies. Nowadays, technological solutions – and specifically those that...more

Alston & Bird

Top 10 Issues General Counsel Need to Know About Ransomware in 2024

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Threat actors are evolving. Our Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team explains how ransomware gangs have changed their tactics and how companies can respond to the threat while navigating new scrutiny from investors and...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Ransomware Hitting U.S. Companies at Increasing Rate

Unfortunately, according to Unit 42 of Palo Alto’s recently published “Ransomware and Extortion Report,” ransomware groups had a good year in 2022. They found that threat actors are using multi-extortion tactics to get paid...more

Hinckley Allen

The 2023 Cyber Year in Review

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The Most Significant Developments in Cybersecurity and Cyber-Related Liability Risks - As we reflect upon 2023, it will unfortunately be remembered as a record-breaking year for ransomware and cybercrime....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Resilience Midyear 2023 Claims Report: Ransomware Cybercriminals Shift Tactics

Resilience issued its Midyear 2023 Claims Report, which is well worth the read. In addition to commenting on the impact of the MOVEit incident, some of the key findings include...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Red Cross Creates Rules for Civilian Hackers in Conflict Zones

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has taken a new step to regulate the activities of civilian hackers in conflict zones. To address the rise in the involvement of civilian hackers in inter-state conflicts,...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

CISA + FBI Issue Joint Advisory on AvosLocker Ransomware

The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on October 11, 2023, urging companies (particularly those in the critical...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: October 2023

Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 10 (October, 2023) Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals will pay California $49 million to resolve allegations that they unlawfully disposed of hazardous waste,...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Joint Advisory Warns of Snatch Ransomware

The FBI and CISA issued a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory “#StopRansomware: Snatch Ransomware” on September 20, 2023. The Advisory outlines the indicators of compromise and observed tactics, techniques, and procedures of Snatch...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

White House Announces Efforts to Strengthen K-12 Schools’ Cybersecurity

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In a 2019 post about increasing cyber risks in K-12 schools, we cited a report, “The State of K-12 Cybersecurity: 2018 Year in Review,” that contained sobering information about cybersecurity in local school districts across...more

Butler Snow LLP

Cybersecurity: What Businesses Need to Know

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Cybersecurity is a top concern for all industries, particularly for the pharmaceutical and medical device industries. These industries hold some of the most sensitive data and highly valuable technology, making them prime...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the...

If Your Password Is On This List, It’s Time to Change It

It’s been several years since I have written about password hygeine. I have been hoping that a better security solution would be widely adopted and while I hear rumors in that regard, passwords still reign supreme. So when I...more

Woods Rogers

Why You Need MFA Setup For Your Business

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Creating passwords needs to be a challenge, not for you to remember but for others to guess. Yet, the digital world is changing. A single sign-on password is pretty easy for unsavory characters to hack. Statistics indicate in...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Cybersecurity Basics Are Key to Combating Ransomware

The onslaught of ransomware attacks by cybercriminals increases unabated every year, affecting everyone from mom and pop shops on Main Street to corporate lions of Wall Street. Hackers infiltrate an organization's computer...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

Intelligence Points to Likely Russian Attacks on Critical Infrastructure

The cybersecurity authorities of the United States (including CISA, FBI, NSA and DOE), Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) on April 20, 2022, “to warn...more

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