At some point within the past 24 hours, the dedicated ransomware leak site operated by NetWalker ransomware threat actors was seized by law enforcement. The notice says that it was seized by the FBI in coordination with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida, the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
Deepfakes Expose Cracks in Virtual ID Verification
One of the things I have come to understand from reading research reports from GeminiAdvisory.io is that criminals are quite nimble and creative as conditions change, the market changes, or new security protocols are adopted. So now that financial institutions, cryptocurrency exchanges, and businesses deploy more sophisticated techniques to verify identity virtually, how are criminals…
NC: Haywood County Schools Sends Data Breach Notices for August Ransomware Attack
Becky Johnson reports: Hundreds of current and former Haywood County Schools employees got letters this month informing them their private information could have been compromised in a cyberattack against the school system. A cybercriminal ring hacked the school’s servers in August and attempted to blackmail the school system into paying a ransom in exchange for…
HIPAA Enforcement by State Attorneys General
HIPAA Journal has a nice recap of of HIPAA enforcement actions by states attorney general. You can read it here.
Association of Corporate Counsel Launches Data Steward Program: An Approach to Assessing Law Firm Data Security
Joseph Lazzarotti and Maya Atrakchi of JacksonLewis write On December 8th, the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC), which represents over 45,000 in-house counsel across 85 countries, announced the launch of its Data Steward Program (DSP) to help organizations and their law firms assess and share information about information security relating to client data. The DSP is two years…
After big hack of U.S. government, Biden enlists ‘world class’ cybersecurity team
Christopher Bing and Joseph Menn report: President Joe Biden is hiring a group of national security veterans with deep cyber expertise, drawing praise from former defense officials and investigators as the U.S. government works to recover from one of the biggest hacks of its agencies attributed to Russian spies. […] To replace Krebs at the…