In November, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) issued draft guidance regarding transfers of personal data from the European Union. That guidance has prompted nearly 200 comments from companies, trade groups, and interested observers. Senior Counsel Peter Swire, along with co-author DeBrae Kennedy-Mayo, has now published a report reviewing these comments through the Cross Border […]
National Security & Digital Crimes
NYDFS Issues Report on the SolarWinds Attack and Covered Entities’ Responses
Following the SolarWinds cyber espionage attack (the “Attack”) and the resulting focus on supply chain risk, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has issued a report detailing the impact on and responses by its regulated covered entities to the Attack. Although there have been no reported instances of active exploitation of DFS-regulated companies […]
FBI Releases IC3 2020 Internet Crime Report Showing Record Increase in Cybercrime
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (“IC3”) recently released its annual report, the 2020 Internet Crime Report (“Report”), which gathers statistics from nearly 800,000 complaints of suspected cybercrimes that the department received in 2020. This is a record number of complaints—a 69% increase from 2019—with reported losses exceeding $4.2 billion. According to the FBI, the […]
Russia Sanctioned For Role In SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack
On April 15, 2021, the Biden Administration took a significant step in announcing sanctions against the Russian Government and private Russian entities for multiple internationally-destabilizing activities, including the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service’s (SVR) supply chain attack of the SolarWinds Orion platform and other technology infrastructures. In addition to the sanctions, the Administration also provided practical […]
U.S. Takes Unprecedented Action to Disrupt State-Sponsored Exploitation of Microsoft Exchange Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
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 […]