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President Biden Issues Executive Order on America’s Supply Chains

February 28, 2021 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

On February 24, 2021, President Biden announced a new Executive Order on America’s Supply Chains. The Order provides for two key initiatives, including a 100-day review of the supply chains for certain vital products and a long-term review of supply chains in six different sectors of the U.S. economy, including the information and communications technology […]

Filed Under: Cyber Risk, National Security, Regulation Tagged With: Executive Order, SolarWinds, Supply Chain

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

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

October 21, 2020 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

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

EU Announces First Sanctions under EU Cyber Sanctions Regime

July 31, 2020 By Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team

On July 30, 2020, the European Council announced sanctions against six individuals and three organizations for their involvement in a series of cyber-attacks that have caused significant damage in the EU and around the world over the last several years. The announcement follows the EU’s adoption last year of Decision (CFSP) 2019/797, which established the […]

Filed Under: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data Security, Enforcement, International, National Security Tagged With: APT10, China, Cybersecurity, European Union (EU), North Korea, Russia, Sanctions, Sandworm

UK National Cyber Security Centre Advisory: Russian Attackers, APT29, Targets Companies Involved in COVID-19 Vaccine Development

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

Yesterday, the UK National Cyber Security Centre and Canada’s Communications Security Establishment released an advisory linking APT29 (also known as, ‘the Dukes’ or ‘Cozy Bear’) to attacks against COVID-19 vaccine development in Canada, the US and the UK.  The Advisory stated that APT29 is “almost certainly part of the Russian intelligence services.”  APT29/Cozy Bear was […]

Filed Under: Advisories, Cyber Risk, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Data Security, Digital Crimes, National Security

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