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Key Takeaways from the CrowdStrike Global Threat Report 2025

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing on 8/18/2025

Published in August 2025, the CrowdStrike Global Threat Report 2025 provides a detailed overview of the evolving cyber threat landscape, drawing on data from millions of endpoints and cloud workloads worldwide....more

[Webcast Transcript] Anatomy of a Business Email Compromise

HaystackID on 11/6/2024

Editor’s Note: This webcast brings together some of HaystackID’s top experts to dissect the intricacies of Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks—a rapidly growing threat impacting organizations globally. During the...more

Key Insights for School District Leaders

Bricker Graydon LLP on 4/19/2024

It’s not getting any easier. In fact, “for K-12 schools, cyber incidents are so prevalent that, on average, there is more than one incident per school day.” While high-profile cyber threats like ransomware and data...more

As If Bank Failures Aren’t Enough – Hackers Are Exploiting the Chaos to Breach Security

Foley Hoag LLP - Security, Privacy and the... on 5/9/2023

The Massachusetts State Police Commonwealth Fusion Center (CFC) believes that cyber actors may use the current bank failures for future phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks. Cyber actors often use current...more

Federal Court Holds Bank Liable For Business Email Compromise Losses

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 5/2/2023

We have written on previous occasions about the rise in frequency and severity of Business Email Compromise (BEC) cyberattacks. As explained in other posts, BEC attacks are a type of phishing scam typically targeting...more

FinCEN analyzes BEC threat patterns and trends in the real estate sector

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 4/5/2023

On March 30, FinCEN released a Financial Trend Analysis examining threat patterns and trends identified in Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) data relating to business email compromise (BEC) in the real estate sector during 2020 and...more

Threat Groups Using Translation Tools in Phishing Attacks

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 2/24/2023

It used to be that one of the sure ways to identify a phishing email was to notice grammatical errors or broken English in the text of the communication. Thanks to new translation tools like Google Translate, that are...more

Cybersecurity Risks for Business- A Primer on Prevention

Goldberg Segalla on 10/10/2022

As technology evolves, companies are finding ways to become more nimble and conduct business more efficiently — over remote networks, email on handheld devices, the cloud, and on cellphones. Yet, as technology advances, so...more

Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts: The Scourge That Is Business Email Compromise

Goldberg Segalla on 4/22/2022

In June 2014, the CEO of Omaha-based Scoular Company sent a series of emails to his company’s controller to let him know that the company was in negotiations to buy a Chinese company. The emails highlighted the sensitivity of...more

[Webinar] How to Prevent and Respond to Business Email Compromises - April 26th, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm ET

Foley Hoag LLP on 3/23/2022

Please join us for a discussion and Q&A regarding the growing threat of business email compromises (a.k.a. man-in-the-middle attacks). Attorneys Chris Hart and Yoni Bard, litigators with experience in privacy matters and...more

Gone Phishing? Wire Fraud Scams Continue Unabated Throughout 2021 So Far

Goodwin on 6/14/2021

By this point, most businesses that regularly send and receive funds electronically have heard about the risk of wire fraud scams in which an intruder changes wiring instructions and diverts funds to its own account,...more

Business Exposure to Internet Crime

Burr & Forman on 6/11/2021

Each year, the Internet Crime Complaint Center (“IC3”) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation publishes its Internet Crime Report. The IC3’s 2020 Internet Crime Report includes startling information about the continuing...more

Recent Cybersecurity Incidents on the Campaign Trail Highlight Risks for Ordinary Companies

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C. on 11/3/2020

Although this is no ordinary campaign, recent news shows how politicians have many of the same worries as typical businesses. On Thursday, October 29, 2020, the Wisconsin Republican Party reported that it had been victimized...more

Not If But When: Cybercrime Targets Telework

Fisher Phillips on 10/7/2020

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of Americans have deserted the physical workplace. Modern technology and remote access capabilities have made it possible to transform almost any job to a telework position. As...more

Business Email Compromise Scams: What You Should Know and What You Can Do To Be Prepared

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 9/9/2020

Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams have become increasingly commonplace and financially destructive. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 2019 was the worst year on record for BEC scams — both in terms...more

FinCEN Issues Advisory on Cyber-Enabled Crime Fueled by COVID-19

Ballard Spahr LLP on 7/31/2020

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) just issued yet another Advisory regarding fraud threats faced by financial institutions, as exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This Advisory pertains to “Cybercrime and...more

[Webinar] Primers for Pandemic Litigation Update - Critical Assets at Risk: Protecting Data Privacy and Trade Secrets during...

Blank Rome LLP on 6/12/2020

With the COVID-19 related increase in remote work, anxious employees are being increasingly targeted by cyber criminals and hackers with phishing scams, business e-mail compromise schemes, and malicious ransomware. At the...more

Private Equity and Cybersecurity: Threats, Consequences, and the Regulatory Framework

Proskauer - The Capital Commitment on 5/20/2020

Cybersecurity breaches and threats are pervasive concerns for any entity storing valuable data or managing large sums of money: private investment funds are no exception. Recently three private equity firms suffered breaches...more

281 criminal arrested for Spearphishing (think Business Email Compromise or BEC)!

Foley & Lardner LLP on 9/13/2019

Darkreading.com reported that the 281 criminals “stole more than 250,000 identities and filed more than 10,000 fraudulent tax returns… attempting to generate more than $91 million in refunds.” The September 11, 2019 report...more

Vermont Supreme Court Holds “False Pretense” Exclusion Ambiguous in Phishing Scam

White and Williams LLP on 1/3/2019

Last week, the Vermont Supreme Court in Rainforest Chocolate, LLC v. Sentinel Insurance Company, 2018 VT LEXIS 240 (Vt. Dec. 28, 2018), held that the “False Pretense” exclusion in a business-owner policy did not exclude loss...more

Trick or Treat: Does the SEC’s October Report Signal a New Shift in Cybersecurity Enforcement?

White and Williams LLP on 10/29/2018

On October 16, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Division of Enforcement issued a report on Cyber-Related Frauds Against Public Companies and Related Internal Accounting Controls Requirements (the Report)...more

Five Questions (And Possible Good Answers) Boards of Directors Should Ask About Cybersecurity

White and Williams LLP on 10/2/2018

Data privacy and security can feel overwhelming for a company’s executive management. Unfortunately, that overwhelming feeling can prevent constructive dialogue and action toward improving a company’s cybersecurity program....more

Cybersecurity Threats for Treasury & Payment Management Systems Report Released

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 2/20/2017

Pactera Technologies N.A., Inc. [www.Pactera.com] has released the report “Cybersecurity Threats for Treasury & Payment Management Systems: Six Things you Should Know to Manage Them.” It is easy to understand and pertinent,...more

Back to School – Avoiding Theft of Data and Money via the “Business Email Compromise” Scam

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints on 9/8/2016

The FBI warned this summer that the “Business Email Compromise” (“BEC”) scam continues to grow, evolve, and target businesses of all sizes. As reported by the FBI in June, the scam had hit more than 22,000 victims for a...more

Information Security and Privacy Group News: Cybersecurity Conference Essential Take-Aways Government, Industry and Legal...

Harris Beach PLLC on 3/25/2016

Representatives of Connecticut businesses and corporations, educational institutions, and state and local government attended Murtha Cullina’s March 2016 Cybersecurity Conference at the Quinnipiac University School of Law....more

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