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Tax Season = Phishing Season

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Most professionals are aware of the April 15 tax deadline. We know that fraudsters certainly are! As Tax Day approaches in the U.S., we encourage all to be mindful of several phishing campaigns that Microsoft has observed...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

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Does Your Cyber Insurance Cover Social Engineering Fraud?

Most policyholders are aware of the danger of losses from fraudulent instructions and invoices accomplished through what is known as “social engineering” or related methods. Often this is carried out by an email claiming to...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

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Call Me, Maybe? The Stealth Disappearance of Social Engineering and Fraudulent Instruction Coverage

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Anyone who owns a cellphone or uses an email address has received a communication from a scammer seeking to extract confidential information or trick the recipient into sending money to foreign countries. These attempts come...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Court Holds Social Engineering Fraud Does Not Trigger Computer Fraud Coverage

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The United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, applying Minnesota law, has held that an insured’s loss resulting from the insured’s payment of fraudulent invoices received from a bad actor who hacked into the...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

Client Alert: High Profile Phishing Incident Demonstrates Continued Need for Social Engineering Insurance

Media outlets recently reported that Barbara Corcoran, one of the judges on the popular ABC show "Shark Tank," was the victim of a "spear phishing" scam....more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

High Profile "Shark" Gets Phished, Demonstrates Continued Need for "Social Engineering" Insurance

Media outlets recently reported that Barbara Corcoran, one of the judges on the popular ABC show “Shark Tank,” was the victim of a “spear phishing” scam. See, e.g.,...more

Jones Day

Insurance Coverage for Social Engineering Crimes—How to Avoid Being Victimized Twice

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The Situation: Businesses are increasingly at risk of social engineering crimes, and often their commercial insurance policies do not provide the full protection that they expected. The Result: Three recent decisions...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Social Engineering Scam Covered By Cyber Insurance

The Sixth Circuit recently entered a ruling in American Tooling Center, Inc. v. Travelers Casualty and Surety Co. of America, 2018 WL 3404708 (6th Cir. July 13, 2018), soundly rejecting a cyber carrier’s extremely narrow...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

Bennett Jones LLP

Cybersecurity—Loss Due to Social Engineering Attack Covered Under Insurance Policy

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As the number and sophistication of social engineering attacks increases, victims are examining their insurance policies to see if they are covered. In The Brick Warehouse LP v. Chubb Insurance Company of Canada, 2017 ABQB...more

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Top 10 Tips for Cybersecurity Employee Training

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Any system is only as strong as its weakest link. If your employees aren’t up to date on their cybersecurity hygiene, then it doesn’t matter how much money you spend on technological defences—there’s a gap in your protection....more

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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

Bennett Jones LLP

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

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