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Need for Enhanced Cybersecurity in Public Finance — Cyberthieves Steal Bond Proceeds

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Recent events highlight the need for enhanced cybersecurity protocols in government offices across the U.S. In late November 2024, the Township of White Lake in Michigan, intended to issue approximately $29 million in general...more

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Business Email Compromise Scams: What They Are, and How to Avoid Them

In an increasingly digital world, the rise in cybercrime involving email scams has become a significant threat to individuals and organizations alike. These sophisticated attacks exploit human psychology and technological...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

A New Twist on Coverage for Losses From ‘Spoofed’ Emails

The facts are frequently the same. A company that has retained the services of a vendor receives an authentic-looking email from the vendor’s CFO which advises that the vendor has changed its bank account or method of...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

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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

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Litigation Outlook Blog Series: Cybersecurity

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As the global pandemic begins to show signs of waning, cyber risk is showing no such easing. In fact, in a recent survey, over 68% of business leaders reported believing that their cybersecurity risks are increasing, despite...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

The SEC Issues Warnings to Companies to Review Controls to Prevent Wire Fraud Hacking Attempts

In an October 16, 2018 investigation report, the Securities and Exchange Commission found that nine companies that suffered Business Email Compromise, or BEC, had insufficient internal controls to prevent such attacks....more

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SEC Issues Report Warning about Fake Email Scams

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On October 16, 2018, the SEC issued a 21(a) report announcing that it had investigated whether certain public companies that were victims of oftentimes unsophisticated, cyber-related frauds had violated federal securities...more

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Don’t Let Spoofing Fool You – SEC Says Internal Accounting Controls Should Address Cyber Threats

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On October 16, 2018, the SEC released an Investigative Report detailing recent email spoofing schemes that caused nine public companies to lose a total of nearly $100 million. Building on its February 2018 guidance about the...more

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SEC Warns Companies of Potential Internal Accounting Control Violations with Business Email Compromise

• The SEC issued guidance in the form of a rare “21(a) report” this week after investigating a series of email frauds impacting 9 unnamed companies. • These email-based frauds, referred to as “CEO scams” or “vendor scams,”...more

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How to Avoid Falling Victim to Wire Transfer Fraud

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According to the Association for Financial Professionals’ Payment and Fraud Controls report, 2017 was a record year for payment fraud. The tactics employed by scammers and other malicious outsiders continue to grow more...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #155 - Home Buyers Tricked Out of Down Payments by Scammers

An old trick is coming back and working. It is a wire fraud scheme targeted at homeowners instead of businesses, and it is happening at an alarming rate....more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Privacy & Cybersecurity Update - August 2018

In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine Brazil's new data protection regulation, the French data protection authority's warning to two companies of potential GDPR violations and the U.S....more

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Wire Transfer Fraud

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Businesses are increasingly falling victim to wire fraud scams – sometimes referred to as “man-in-the-email” or “business email compromise” scams. Although there are multiple variants, a common situation involves an attacker...more

Nossaman LLP

Two Court Rulings Show Coverage Difficulties for “Fake President” Fraud

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A few weeks back, the Insurance Recovery report posted a blog about the difficulty obtaining insurance coverage for “fake president” fraud, which is also known as business e-mail compromise, or social engineering fraud. Two...more

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Cybersecurity: Spear Phishing Covered Under Insurance Policy Where Code Manipulated

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Increasingly, insureds faced with cyber fraud losses are going to the courts to interpret their policies. In The Brick Warehouse LP v. Chubb Insurance Company of Canada, 2017 ABQB 413 [The Brick Warehouse], and in Taylor &...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Law Firm Data Breaches Demonstrate the Expanding Scope of Cyber Attacks

In a case of “cyber meets securities fraud,” the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York (“SDNY”) recently indicted three foreign nationals on charges of insider trading, wire fraud, and computer...more

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[Webinar] Business E-mail Compromise Scams - Practical Perspectives - January 12th, 10:30am EST

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An increasing number of businesses are targeted by very sophisticated email scams designed to convince company employees responsible for executing financial transactions to wire funds to overseas accounts controlled by...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

FBI issues another warning of a “dramatic increase” in phishing spoofs of CEOs

We have consistently reported about increased phishing attacks through emails that purport to come from high level executives, including CEOs. According to the FBI, the hackers use sophisticated social engineering to spoof...more

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Spoofing Whales: How Companies Can Protect Their CEOs and CFOs from the "Business Email Compromise”

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Cyber scammers continually innovate new means to extract valuable information from unsuspecting victims. And a new form of cyber fraud is exploiting the close relationship between CEOs and CFOs. Identifying this threat — and...more

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