October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month! In this GT Bulletin, Shareholders Jena Valdetero and Kevin Scott highlight five key trends that should be top-of-mind for businesses and organizations to protect their data systems and remain in compliance with the various rules to which they are subject. Click here to watch the full GT Bulletin.
In this article, we discuss today’s most prevalent types of ransomware attacks, considerations for whether to make the ransom payment, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control’s (OFAC) ransomware guidance, and the U.S. government’s efforts in connection with these attacks.
December 2021 has brought with it holiday cheer and an uptick in distributed denial of service attacks (DDOS) attacks. DDOS attacks are fast becoming a new tool in the extortionist threat actor’s toolkit. DDOS attacks are attractive because they don’t require attackers to actually hack into a company’s systems. Instead, a DDOS attack targets a