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25 Apr 2023, 5:16 am by Louise Marie Hurel
Editor’s note: This article was originally published in Spanish in Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica. [read post]
19 Apr 2023, 7:11 am by Benjamin Kalman
In the event that a ransom payment is made in response to a ransomware attack, covered entities will need to: 1) Notify DFS within 24 hours of the payment; and 2) Provide DFS within 30 days of the payment with a written statement explaining why payment was made (in addition to other points). [read post]
19 Apr 2023, 7:11 am by Benjamin Kalman
In the event that a ransom payment is made in response to a ransomware attack, covered entities will need to: 1) Notify DFS within 24 hours of the payment; and 2) Provide DFS within 30 days of the payment with a written statement explaining why payment was made (in addition to other points). [read post]
19 Apr 2023, 7:08 am by Stewart Baker
The good news is that they seem unable to encrypt it all, so they’re relying on doxing threats to earn the ransom they want. [read post]
18 Apr 2023, 5:12 pm by Stewart Baker
The good news is that they seem unable to encrypt it all, so they're relying on doxing threats to earn the ransom they want. [read post]
16 Apr 2023, 6:00 pm by Yale Hauptman
Maybe a kidnapper gets on the phone and says he’ll return her for a ransom. [read post]
7 Apr 2023, 3:00 am by Jack Sharman
 If on these things I durst not looke, durst I Upon his miserable mother cast mine eye, Who was Gods partner here, and furnish’d thus Halfe of that Sacrifice, which ransom’d us? [read post]
31 Mar 2023, 5:16 am by Eugenia Lostri, Georgia Wood
In Costa Rica, the Conti ransomware group demanded a ransom of $10 million in exchange for not publishing data stolen from the country’s Finance Ministry. [read post]
23 Mar 2023, 4:15 am by Rob Robinson
” Prime threats affecting the transport sector ransomware attacks; data related threats; malware; denial-of-service (DoS), distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and ransom denial-of-service (RDoS) attacks; phishing / spear phishing; supply-chain attacks. [read post]
22 Mar 2023, 5:00 am by jonathanturley
The Justice Department spent a king’s ransom on the case to show that the third-party payments were a circumvention of campaign finance laws, because the payments were designed to bury an election scandal. [read post]
An obligation neither limited to payments of cyber ransoms…nor to data breaches The legislative report preceding the enactment of the Law states that it originally aimed to “thwart cybercriminals’ economic model” in demanding payments of cyber ransoms by making the payment of insurance indemnities conditional upon the filing of a criminal complaint. [read post]
15 Mar 2023, 12:32 pm by Kevin LaCroix
Working with a third-party cybersecurity firm, the company’s IT personnel coordinated the payment of a ransom in exchange for the attacker’s promise to delete the “exfiltrated” customer data. [read post]
9 Mar 2023, 3:58 am by Fred Rocafort
These characteristics of the Chinese trademark system have made bad-faith trademark applications more attractive to bad-faith actors, such as trademark “squatters” who register trademarks in the hopes that the legitimate owners of the trademarks will pay a ransom for them. [read post]
7 Mar 2023, 12:00 pm by Gary Corn, Melanie Teplinsky
Ransomware not only has been growing as a problem for the private sector but also represents a clear threat to national security with a number of identifiable trends, including: (a) an increasingly sophisticated, specialized, and resilient Ransomware-as-a-Service ecosystem, in which ransomware is packaged and sold for use; (b) ransomware-driven developments in cyber insurance, such as increased premiums, shrinking coverage, and the potential need for, and scope of, federally backed cyber insurance;… [read post]
” Counter Cybercrime, Defeat Ransomware – Finally, the Strategy outlines the Administration’s willingness to use national power to counter the ransomware threat along four lines of effort:  (1) leveraging international cooperation to disrupt the ransomware ecosystem and isolate those countries that provide safe havens for criminals; (2) investigating ransomware crimes and using law enforcement and other authorities to disrupt ransomware infrastructure and actors; (3)… [read post]
3 Mar 2023, 5:16 am by Eugenia Lostri, Stephanie Pell
On March 2, the Biden administration released its long-awaited National Cybersecurity Strategy. [read post]
Should the Government prohibit the payment of ransoms and extortion demands by cyber criminals by: (a) victims of cybercrime; and/or  (b) insurers? [read post]