On February 20, 2025, the Virginia legislature passed the High-Risk Artificial Intelligence Developer and Deployer Act (House Bill 2094, the “VA AI Act”) that mandates developers and deployers of high-risk artificial intelligence systems (“HRAI … [Read more] about Virginia Legislature Passes Second US AI Governance Act behind Colorado: Comparing the AI Acts
Since the first comprehensive state data privacy law went into effect in California in 2020, 18 other states have enacted comprehensive data privacy laws, with 14 others currently moving through their respective state legislative process. The … [Read more] about Congress Seeks Comments on Comprehensive Federal Data Privacy Law
On February 19, 2025, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), issued a joint cybersecurity … [Read more] about Ghost (Cring) Ransomware: Understanding The Threat & How Enterprises Can Defend Themselves
On February 4, 2025, Coveware, Inc. released its quarterly ransomware report for the fourth quarter of 2024, and identified that the percentage of victims paying ransoms fell to a historic low of 25%. While the average amount of a payment in Q4 2024 … [Read more] about Ransom Payments At A Historic Low According to Report
On January 14, 2025, the United Kingdom government published a consultation on ransomware proposing new measures to increase incident reporting and reduce ransom payments (the “Consultation”). The Consultation outlines three objectives in this regard … [Read more] about UK Government Proposes Targeted Ban on Ransom Payments and Increased Ransomware Incident Reporting