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U.S. Takes Unprecedented Action to Disrupt State-Sponsored Exploitation of Microsoft Exchange Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

April 19, 2021 By Kim Peretti and Kate Hanniford

On April 13, 2021, a federal district court granted a motion to partially unseal an FBI application and search warrant following the successful conclusion of an FBI operation to eradicate malicious web shells placed on U.S.-based computers by Chinese state-sponsored actors.  The FBI’s use of credentialed, remote access techniques to access, copy, and remove malware […]

Filed Under: China, Digital Crimes, National Security, Uncategorized

NYDFS Announces Cybersecurity Settlement, Addresses Multi-Factor Authentication Rules

April 16, 2021 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

On April 14, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) announced a settlement with National Securities Corporation (“National Securities”), a licensed insurer, in connection with claims under the NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation (23 NYCRR Part 500). The consent order requires payment of a $3M penalty and mandatory remediation in response to alleged failures to […]

Filed Under: Cybersecurity, Data Breach, Data Protection, Data Security, Digital Crimes, Enforcement, Financial Privacy, Insurance Data Security, NYDFS, Regulation

NYDFS Reports Major Cybersecurity Settlement

March 11, 2021 By James Harvey and Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

In early March, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) announced a settlement involving a $1.5M penalty and mandatory remediation in response to a mortgage lender’s alleged failure to report a cyber breach, and other alleged cybersecurity failures. This enforcement action marks the second public enforcement action under 23 NYCRR Part 500 (the “Cybersecurity […]

Filed Under: Cyber Risk, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data Breach, Data Breach Litigation, Data Protection, Data Security, Digital Crimes, Enforcement, Financial Privacy, NYDFS, Regulation, Security Breach

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

February 1, 2021 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

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

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

December 17, 2020 By Kim Peretti and Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

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

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