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New York Department of Financial Services Issues First Guidance by a U.S. Regulator Concerning Cyber Insurance

Data Matters

On February 4, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) issued Circular Letter No. Educate Insureds and Insurance Producers. individuals and businesses comply with ransomware payment demands in this October 2020 client alert.) regulator concerning the increasingly critical issue of cyberinsurance.

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Operation Cronos: law enforcement disrupted the LockBit operation

Security Affairs

Since January 2020, affiliates utilizing LockBit have targeted organizations of diverse sizes spanning critical infrastructure sectors such as financial services, food and agriculture, education, energy, government and emergency services, healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation. on January 5, 2020.

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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

Regulatory compliance and data privacy issues have long been an IT security nightmare. GDPR (among other legal requirements in the EU and elsewhere) can expose multinational organizations to hefty financial penalties, additional rules for disclosing data breaches, and increased scrutiny of the adequacy of their data security.

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Cybersecurity agencies published a joint LockBit ransomware advisory

Security Affairs

organizations since 2020. organizations since 2020. The operation targeted many organizations in critical infrastructure sectors, including financial services, food and agriculture, education, energy, government and emergency services, healthcare, manufacturing, and transportation. law enforcement).

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A Russian national charged for committing LockBit Ransomware attacks

Security Affairs

The US authorities arrested the man in Arizona last month DoJ states that from at least as early as August 2020 to March 2023, Astamirov and other members of the LockBit ransomware gang committed wire fraud and compromised many computer systems worldwide attempting to extort the victims of ransomware attacks. organizations since 2020.

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US GOV OFFERS A REWARD OF UP TO $15M FOR INFO ON LOCKBIT GANG MEMBERS AND AFFILIATES

Security Affairs

According to the press release published by the Department of State , the Lockbit ransomware operators carried out over 2,000 attacks against victims worldwide since January 2020. The NCA and its global partners have secured over 1,000 decryption keys that will allow victims of the gang to recover their files for free.

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Cloudflare: Mirai Botnet Launched Record-Breaking DDoS Attack

eSecurity Planet

Cloudflare last month fought off a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by a botnet that was bombarding 17.2 million requests per second (rps) at one of the internet infrastructure company’s customers in the financial services space. DDoS Attacks on the Rise. That prediction proved correct.