On July 31, 2025, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a $9.8 million settlement with Illumina, Inc. (Illumina) to resolve alleged False Claims Act (FCA) violations related to cybersecurity vulnerabilities...more
The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and international partners issued an updated advisory on July 29, 2025, highlighting the evolving tactics, techniques, and...more
Introduction - On July 19, 2025, Microsoft announced two new vulnerabilities that are actively being exploited (CVE-2025-49704 and CVE-2025-49706) and that relate to on-premises Microsoft SharePoint instances that are exposed...more
In April 2025, SK Telecom—South Korea’s largest mobile carrier—formally notified regulators of a significant data breach that compromised sensitive SIM card data belonging to nearly 27 million users. Following an...more
The New York State Department of Health has issued an urgent cybersecurity advisory (the Advisory) warning of increased threat levels and a higher likelihood of cybersecurity attacks from Iranian state-backed actors following...more
Overview - On June 23, 2025, the New York State Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) issued an industry letter encouraging all regulated entities to review their cybersecurity and sanctions compliance programs in light...more
Our Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team discusses how to overcome five challenges companies face in the wake of a data security incident when reviewing impacted data to comply with legal obligations....more
On July 8, 2025, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) is set to lift its self-imposed pause on enforcing certain violations of its Rule Preventing Access to US Sensitive Personal Data and Government-Related Data by Countries of...more
6/24/2025
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Compliance ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Security ,
Data Transfers ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Executive Orders ,
Foreign Entities ,
National Security ,
New Regulations ,
Personal Data
On June 6, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) on Sustaining Select Efforts to Strengthen the Nation’s Cybersecurity, amending certain prior directives established by the Biden and Obama administrations....more
On May 1, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a settlement under the False Claims Act (FCA) involving defense contractors Raytheon Company (Raytheon), RTX Corporation (RTX), and Nightwing Group—the successor...more
Overview - On May 6, 2025, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in coordination with the FBI, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Department of Energy (DOE), issued a joint fact sheet titled...more
Our Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team highlights the shift in priorities for privacy and cybersecurity regulation and enforcement across U.S. agencies under the second Trump Administration....more
On March 26, 2025, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that it had reached an agreement with MORSECORP Inc. (MORSE) to settle alleged violations of the False Claims Act (FCA), specifically regarding...more
On May 1, 2025, additional enhanced cybersecurity controls required by the Second Amendment to the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Cybersecurity Regulation (23 NYCRR Part 500) (the “Second Amendment”) take...more
Eight years ago, on March 1, 2017, the New York Department of Financial Services enacted its landmark cybersecurity regulation covering financial services companies, 23 NYCRR Part 500, known as “Part 500.” Part 500 was the...more
Our Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Team highlights the increasingly specific cybersecurity controls identified by regulators, explains why these enhanced cybersecurity controls have become the focus of regulators, and shares...more
On March 13, 2025, the Federal Communications Commission’s (“FCC”) Chairman Brendan Carr announced the creation of a Council on National Security (the “Council”) with Adam Chan serving as the Director. This new Council will...more
On March 12, 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...more
3/17/2025
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Cybersecurity ,
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Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Data Security ,
FBI ,
Ransomware ,
Risk Management ,
Threat Management
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...more
2/24/2025
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Cyber Threats ,
Cybersecurity ,
Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Malware ,
Multi-Factor Authentication ,
Ransomware ,
Risk Management ,
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system
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...more
On January 14, 2025, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released the AI Cybersecurity Collaboration Playbook (the “Playbook”) to provide guidance to organizations within the AI community (including AI...more
In the final week of the Biden Administration’s term in office, former President Biden issued two high profile executive orders that could have significant ramifications for the cybersecurity and technology industries. The...more
On January 15, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a proposed settlement with GoDaddy Inc. (GoDaddy) for making false or misleading representations about their security practices in violation of Section 5 of...more
1/22/2025
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Compliance ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Security ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
FTC Act ,
Misleading Statements ,
Privacy Laws ,
Risk Management ,
Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices
On January 3, 2025, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) announced sanctions on a Chinese-based cybersecurity company, Integrity Technology Group, Inc. (“Integrity Tech”). These sanctions...more
In late December 2024, the New York Governor signed two bills (S2659B and S2376B) amending the state’s data breach notification law (N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law § 899-aa), to expand the definition of reportable personal information...more