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Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

What to Know About SafePay Ransomware Group

The SafePay ransomware group has been active since fall 2024 and has increased its activity this spring and summer. According to NCC Group, SafePay hit the most victims of any threat actor in May 2025—it is linked to 248...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

FBI Warns Airline and Transportation Sectors About Scattered Spider

On June 27, 2025, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a warning on X to the airline and transportation sectors that the notorious cyber criminal ring Scattered Spider is attacking those sectors....more

Maynard Nexsen

Urgent Cybersecurity Briefing: Scattered Spider Attacks

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Several insurance companies have been targeted this month by cyberattacks, including AFLAC, Erie Insurance, and Philadelphia Insurance. The threat actor, Scattered Spider, is now focusing on the insurance industry. We want to...more

BakerHostetler

[Podcast] 2025 DSIR Deeper Dive: Deeper Dive into the Data

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We’re back with a deeper dive into the 2025 Data Security Incident Response Report, which features insights and metrics from more than 1,250 incidents in 2024. This episode dives deeper into the data, including network...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Don’t Get Caught in Scattered Spider’s Web

The cybercrime group known as Scattered Spider is at it again, according to Google’s Threat Intelligence Group. This criminal group is known to focus its cyber attacks on one sector at a time. Last spring, it was the retail...more

BakerHostetler

DSIR: Deeper Dive into the Data

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Every year, BakerHostetler collects, analyzes and compares key metrics on the incident response matters we handled in the prior year. The Data Security Incident Response (DSIR) Report presents key findings and trends, along...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Sophisticated Crypto Theft Targeting High-Net-Worth Individuals

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A recent court case has unveiled a new level of sophistication in attacks targeting high-net-worth cryptocurrency holders. In a meticulously orchestrated scheme, hackers managed to steal more than $40 million in bitcoin from...more

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Further Clarity Regarding Coverage for Funds Transfer Fraud

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At this point, your IT department has almost certainly warned you to approach your e-mail inbox with skepticism--for good reason. Cybercriminals regularly and effectively impersonate our legitimate contacts for illegitimate...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Phishing Attacks – Anyone Can Get Pwned

HaveIBeenPwned is a website that allows users to check whether their data has been involved in data breaches. The website’s creator, Troy Hunt, was the subject of a phishing attack earlier this week....more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #435 – Threat Actors Go Retro: Using Snail Mail for Scams

We have educated our readers about phishing, smishing, QRishing, and vishing scams, and now we’re warning you about what we have dubbed “snailing.” Yes, believe it or not, threat actors have gone retro and are using snail...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Social Engineering + Stolen Credential Threats Continue to Dominate Cyber-Attacks

CrowdStrike recently published its 2025 Global Threat Report, which among other conclusions, emphasized that social engineering tactics aimed to steal credentials grew an astounding 442% in the second half of 2024....more

Ward and Smith, P.A.

Data Privacy Insights Part 2: The Most Common Types of Data Breaches Businesses Face

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As part of Data Privacy Awareness Week, Ward and Smith is spotlighting the most common types of data breaches that businesses encounter. In Part 1, we explored the industries most vulnerable to cyberattacks, highlighting the...more

Jackson Lewis P.C.

AI versus MFA

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Ask any chief information security officer (CISO), cyber underwriter or risk manager, or cybersecurity attorney about what controls are critical for protecting an organization’s information systems, you’ll likely find...more

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[Webcast Transcript] Anatomy of a Business Email Compromise

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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

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Business Email Compromise: The Most Prevalent – and Preventable – Cyber Risk

Ransomware attacks that shut business down to zero and data breaches that disclose the personal information of customers, vendors and employees justifiably strike fear in the hearts of executives everywhere. Organizations can...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

AI Phishing Attacks Illustrate the Importance of Employee Awareness

Retool, a software development firm offering modular code for customizable enterprise software, recently notified 27 customers that a threat actor had accessed their accounts. The attacker was able to navigate through...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - February 2023

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CYBERSECURITY - World Economic Forum’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook for 2023 Is Bleak - Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but remember that I am only the messenger. According to the World Economic Forum’s Global...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Social engineering in tax season: Form W-2 exploits

This year’s deadline for filing individual tax returns is April 18. Malicious actors routinely target human resources professionals, certified public accountants, and individual employees with social engineering attacks...more

Robinson & Cole LLP

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - August 2022 #2

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CYBERSECURITY - Twilio Hit with Social Engineering Smishing Scheme - We’ve explained smishing schemes before. Smishing is like phishing, but uses SMS texting to deliver malicious code to users’ phones, or tricks the user...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Privacy Tip #340 – Smishing Scams Reminder

The Twilio and Cloudfare smishing attacks [view related post] provide a timely reminder of how sophisticated smishing attacks are and how they can affect businesses and their customers. But threat actors don’t just attack...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Twilio Hit with Social Engineering Smishing Scheme

We’ve explained smishing schemes before. Smishing is like phishing, but uses SMS texting to deliver malicious code to users’ phones, or tricks the user into visiting a malicious website to steal their credentials or money....more

Robins Kaplan LLP

The Robins Kaplan Privacy Pulse: Robinhood Data Breached Via Social Engineering

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Buzzy brokerage app Robinhood Markets is the latest victim of a cyberhack, disclosing earlier this week that the personal information of some 7 million users was exposed. According to Bloomberg, the “intruder made off with...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Phishing, Vishing, and Smishing—Your Employees Need to Know the Newest Schemes

New dictionary words have been formed to describe online scams. Phishing, one that everyone knows by now, is when a scammer uses a pretext in an email to get someone to click on a link or attachment in the email to deploy...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

Verizon 2021 Data Breach Investigations Report Released

If you have been following Verizon’s annual data breach investigation reports like I have over the years, you get excited when the new one comes out. If you have never read the report, now’s your chance, as the 2021 report...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

FBI + CISA Issue Joint Alert on Vishing Attacks

When the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) get together to issue an alert to warn us about a security threat, you can bet that the threat is real, and that...more

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