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Emily Poole

About Emily Poole

Emily Poole is an associate on Alston & Bird’s Privacy & Data Security and Cybersecurity Preparedness & Response teams. She focuses her practice on cybersecurity and privacy compliance and enforcement, as well as emerging technology issues.

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U.S. Takes Part in Multinational Efforts to Disrupt Netwalker Ransomware and Emotet Malware

February 1, 2021 By Emily Poole

On January 27 and 28, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced two successful operations to disrupt two different strains of malware, Netwalker ransomware and a banking Trojan known as Emotet, which have affected victims around the globe and caused millions of dollars in damage in recent years. The law enforcement actions against Netwalker and […]

Filed Under: Cybercrime, Digital Crimes, Enforcement Tagged With: CISA, Department of Justice (DOJ), Emotet, Netwalker

New Law Requires HHS to Consider Recognized Security Practices as Mitigating Factor When Determining Penalties

January 21, 2021 By Emily Poole

On January 5, 2021, the president signed into law H.R. 7898, an Act that amends the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to consider specific recognized security practices of covered entities and business associates when making certain determinations regarding fines, penalties, […]

Filed Under: Data Security, Enforcement, Health Privacy, HHS Tagged With: HHS, HIPAA, HITECH, National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST)

Financial Regulatory Agencies Announce Proposed Rule Requiring Notice of Computer Security Incidents

January 12, 2021 By Kimberly Peretti, Emily Poole and Michael Young

On December 18, 2020, federal financial regulatory agencies jointly announced a proposed rule that would impose new and expanded reporting requirements on supervised banking organizations that experience a “computer-security incident,” requiring notice within 36 hours of any computer-security incident that rises to the level of a “notification incident.” In a significant departure from current reporting […]

Filed Under: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data Security, Enforcement, NYDFS Tagged With: Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Computer-Security Incident, FDIC, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Suspicious Activity Report (SAR)

SolarWinds Hack: Unparalleled Supply Chain Attack Results in Potential Compromise of Private and Public Sector Organizations

December 17, 2020 By Emily Poole and Kimberly Peretti

On Sunday, December 13, 2020, SolarWinds announced that it had learned of a “highly sophisticated, manual supply chain attack” by a nation state affecting its Orion Platform, which is used by a wide variety of public and private sector organizations for IT infrastructure monitoring and management.  In this attack, adversaries were able to compromise the […]

Filed Under: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data Breach, Data Security, Digital Crimes, National Security, Security Breach Tagged With: CISA, Cozy Bear, Department of Commerce (DOC), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), FireEye, Microsoft, ODNI, Russia, SolarWinds, supply chain attack, Treasury

DOJ Announces Indictment of Russian Hackers for Destructive Cyber-Attacks, Including Deployment of NotPetya and Olympic Destroyer Malware

October 21, 2020 By Emily Poole

On October 19, 2020, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that six Russian GRU officers had been charged in connection with a series of destructive cyber-attacks that affected victims around the globe and caused billions of dollars of damage. The Russian hackers are alleged to be a part of the group known as Sandworm, which […]

Filed Under: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Digital Crimes, Enforcement, National Security Tagged With: Department of Justice (DOJ), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), GRU, indictment, Olympic Destroyer, Russia, Sandworm

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