Risk Management, Data Breach, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)

Do You Know Who Your Employee Is? Mitigating DPRK IT Worker Risk

StoneTurn on 2/19/2025

North Korean IT operatives are infiltrating U.S. and Western companies using stolen or fabricated identities, VPNs, and U.S.-based co-conspirators to gain unauthorized access to corporate systems. These insider threats pose...more

Ransomware Criminal Prosecution of Russian National Underscores Pervasive Ransomware Risks

The Volkov Law Group on 6/1/2023

In today’s world of cyber threats, many companies have fallen victim to ransomware attacks. Corporate boards and senior executives face serious issues when their companies are attacked. The payment of ransom is not only...more

[Webcast Transcript] Data Mining in Incident Response: Managing Risk and Spend through an Effective Evidence-Based Approach

HaystackID on 9/8/2022

Editor’s Note: On August 31, 2022, HaystackID shared an educational webcast on the topic of data mining in data breach incident response. As data mining has increasingly become one of the largest expenses during a cyber...more

Cybersecurity Basics Are Key to Combating Ransomware

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 6/30/2022

The onslaught of ransomware attacks by cybercriminals increases unabated every year, affecting everyone from mom and pop shops on Main Street to corporate lions of Wall Street. Hackers infiltrate an organization's computer...more

Year-end Crypto Roundup — Five Key Concepts About the U.S. Government’s Recent Actions on Virtual Currency and Ransomware

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 12/30/2021

The innovative use of virtual currencies is hotter than ever, but so is a dark side of these instruments: their exploitation in ransomware schemes. This year, since January 2021, ransomware attacks have increased...more

Announcing ‘Cyber Insurance Risk Framework,’ NY DFS Joins OFAC in Discouraging Carriers From Making Ransomeware Payments

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer on 2/10/2021

Ransomware threats and attacks dominated the cyber news cycle in 2020 and into 2021. With the global pandemic and the uptick in remote work and learning, cybercriminals and nation-state hackers have seized on vulnerabilities...more