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The Supreme Court of Virginia Provides Needed Cybercrime Guidance

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On November 21, the Supreme Court of Virginia entered a published order reversing a 14-3 en banc decision of the Court of Appeals of Virginia addressing the applicability of Virginia’s criminal laws regulating cybercrime. The...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Scary Halloween News: Jumpy Pisces Using Play Ransomware to Attack Organizations

Unit 42 recently reported that it has identified “Jumpy Pisces, a North Korean state-sponsored threat group associated with the Reconnaissance General Bureau of the Korean People’s Army, as a key player in a recent ransomware...more

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Today’s Menacing Cyber Threat Environment: What Organizations Need to Know to Quickly Respond to a Data Breach and Reduce the...

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As the last two years have clearly demonstrated, no organization is immune from cyberattacks.  Indeed, numerous studies have reported that a majority of businesses have been impacted by at least one cyberattack over the past...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

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

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Preserving Forensic Artifacts Following Incident Detection - Dear Mary – Incidents + Investigations Cybersecurity Advice Column

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‘Dear Mary,’ is Troutman Pepper’s Incidents + Investigations team’s advice column. Here, you will find Mary’s answers to questions about anything and everything cyber-related – data breaches, forensic investigations, how to...more

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TeamViewer Attacked by Russian-Based Cybercriminals

TeamViewer, which provides remote connectivity products and services, announced that it detected a cybersecurity event on its internal IT system on June 26, 2024. TeamViewer stated that it did not affect the TeamViewer...more

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2024 HIPAA Developments

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Over the course of the past few months, the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), both of which are divisions of the U.S. Department of Health and...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: April 2024

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) is seeking comment on a proposed rule to implement reporting requirements for critical infrastructure entities, including health care entities, on cyberattacks and ransomware...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - February 2024 #2

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CYBERSECURITY - 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....more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: February 2024

The American Hospital Association (AHA) has warned that information technology (IT) help desks are being targeted in a social engineering scheme that uses the stolen identity of revenue cycle employees or employees in other...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

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Weaving Cyber Resilience into the Strategic Fabric of Higher Education Institutions (from EdTech Magazine)

“At colleges and universities across the nation, leaders agree that the key to ensuring business continuity and sustainability is cyber resilience.” Why this is important: As highlighted in previous editions of The...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Privacy Briefs: November 2023

Report on Patient Privacy 23, no. 11 (November, 2023) The American Hospital Association (AHA) is urging federal lawmakers to intervene with the HHS Office for Civil Rights (OCR) so that hospitals and health systems can...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

NYAG Settles with Personal Touch for $350,000 over Phishing Incident

According to a press release, Personal Touch, a home health company located on Long Island, has reached a settlement with New York Attorney General Letitia James for $350,000 for a data breach that occurred in January of 2021...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

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HC3 Warns Healthcare Organizations of NoEscape Ransomware

On October 12, 2023, the Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) issued an Alert to the healthcare industry about a “new threat actor and ransomware,” NoEscape, which is threatening health care organizations....more

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Hacking the Hive: How It Can Help Businesses

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Businesses can breathe a little easier now that one of the world’s top five ransomware networks, the Hive, has been infiltrated and disbanded by the FBI....more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - August 2022 #2

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CYBERSECURITY - Twilio Hit with Social Engineering Smishing Scheme - We’ve explained smishing schemes before. Smishing is like phishing, but uses SMS texting to deliver malicious code to users’ phones, or tricks the user...more

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The HSE Cyberattack: Lessons Learned

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In this article, we look at the 2021 cyberattack on the Health Service Executive (“HSE”), the national healthcare provider for Ireland, and what lessons have been learned from that crisis one year post-incident....more

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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

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Joint International Advisory Warns of Increased Global Threat of Ransomware

A joint Cybersecurity Advisory issued by U.S. and international partners, entitled “2021 Trends Show Increased Globalized Threat of Ransomware,” warns of “the growing international threat posed by ransomware over the past...more

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Protecting Healthcare Records These Days is Like a Game of “Whac-a-Mole”

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You’ve probably either played the game “Whac-a-Mole” yourself as a kid, or you watched your kid play it, at a Chuck E. Cheese or another similar arcade. It’s a simple game with five holes in which moles pop up and a soft...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Reporting of Breaches Under 500 Due by March 1

HIPAA requires covered entities and business associates to report to the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) all breaches of unsecured protected health information when the incident involves fewer than 500 individuals no later than...more

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Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - January 2022 #4

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CYBERSECURITY - CISA Warns “Every Organization” in U.S. to Assess + Respond to Cyber Risks - The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently issued another warning to “every organization” in the...more

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