News and Developments in AI, Data Privacy and Cybersecurity
A presentation at Black Hat recently revealed that the creators of the “SamSam” ransomware have netted over $6M to date, attacking mostly medium-to-large public and private sector organizations. And they’re showing no signs of slowing down.
In the most recent SamSam attacks, the attackers concentrated their efforts on brute-force hacking of weak passwords on devices…
Health care providers and suppliers should be wary of the “Orangeworm” threat, an implementation of malware out in the wild that’s gathering information off of compromised medical equipment, especially old systems where file shares and Windows XP are still in use:
While this group seems to be limiting their actions to reconnaissance and compromising…
As a firm with a large real estate practice, we are keenly aware of the risks of wire transfer fraud in real estate transactions – which has exploded from a reported $19 Million in 2016 to almost $1 Billion in 2017.
Often this fraud is the result of the hacker compromising a legitimate email…
