On November 18, 2021, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation jointly announced the approval of a final rule to improve the sharing of information about cyber incidents that may affect the U.S. banking system. The rule applies to […]
Treasury FinCEN Releases Financial Trend Analysis of Ransomware Trends in 2021
By Kim Peretti, Brian Frey, and Kristen Bartolotta On October 15, 2021 the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCen) of the Treasury Department issued a financial trend analysis on ransomware relating to Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) reporting filed in the first half of this year. FinCEN examined ransomware-related Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) filed between January 1 […]