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CISA Issues Statement on Log4j Critical Vulnerability

December 13, 2021 By Kim Peretti and Jon Knight

Log4j is a java-based tool from Apache’s open source library used for parsing logs that never seems to have made headlines before this past weekend.  Now, following the December 9th public announcement of a vulnerability in this tool, public and private sector security partners are issuing warnings about this “critical vulnerability.”  While the full scope […]

Filed Under: Cyber Risk, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Security Breach Tagged With: CISA, cybersecurity, Log4j, vulnerability

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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