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Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Recent Ransomware Attacks Highlight the Evolving Challenges in Responding to Cyber Extortion

A spate of recent ransomware attacks illustrates the increasingly difficult calculations that businesses face following the theft or encryption of their data....more

BakerHostetler

DSIR Deeper Dive: 2023 Crypto Threat Landscape

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Following one of the most turbulent years in crypto history, 2023, in contrast, unfolded as a year of reprieve, including from crypto threats. According to a July 12, 2023, report from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis,...more

Fenwick & West LLP

To Pay or Not to Pay: Five Critical Approaches to Beating a Ransomware Threat

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It’s the call you hope you never get. Your company has been hit with a ransomware attack. Your systems are offline. Your customer data was stolen by an unknown threat actor who is threatening to leak it. You have lots of...more

Pillsbury - Internet & Social Media Law Blog

The Many-Headed Threat of Ransomware

It may seem that the very term “ransomware” wasted little time going from “newish-sounding threat” to expected, constant presence in the news and IT meetings alike. But, of course, it’s ultimately just a modern word for one...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #193 – FBI Issues Warning to Parents about Sextortion

Summer vacation is almost here for school-age children, which means that kids will have more free time to roam the Internet. Unfortunately, according to the FBI, this means that the threat of online predators is high and the...more

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Cyber Extortion: What to Do When Your Data is Being Held for Ransom

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Imagine you are the IT systems administrator of a large corporation. Coffee in hand, you sit down one morning and log in. You receive a message that there has been an intrusion into the corporate database, a large amount of...more

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