There was a big win for the good guys against the bad guys this week. On December 13, 2023, after obtaining an order from the federal court in the Southern District of New York to seize U.S. based infrastructure and take offline websites used by a group Microsoft identifies as Storm-1152, Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit
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Wyoming LLCs Apparently Driving Cybersecurity Threats
By Robinson+Cole's Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Team on
Posted in Enforcement + Litigation
According to new reporting from Reuters, cybercriminals are exploiting Wyoming’s limited liability corporation law to set up legitimate-seeming endpoints for illicit traffic. Filtering traffic through the United States allows criminals to evade detection by their targets and law enforcement. Wyoming’s LLC governance system, often promoted as being business-friendly and user-friendly, enables criminals to create…