DOJ Announces Indictment of Russian Hackers for Destructive Cyber-Attacks, Including Deployment of NotPetya and Olympic Destroyer Malware

A legal update on privacy, data security, and all things cyber by the attorneys of Alston & Bird.

Hidden among the foreign aid and TikTok provisions, the National Security Act contains significant changes to U.S. sanctions regulations and a move to confiscate certain blocked Russian assets. Our International Trade & Regulatory Group highlights these lesser-known provisions.

Keep up with what’s happening in privacy, data security, and all things cyber – from California’s CCPA, CPPA, and CPRA to Germany’s cyber-threat landscape to India’s new strict reporting rules – from our Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy Group.

The Department of Justice dealt a blow to global cybercrime on April 6 with the takedown of a massive botnet controlled by “Sandworm”—the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) unit responsible for the 2017 NotPetya attack, among others. This article shows how a track record of being “forward leaning” on cybersecurity can pay dividends, especially when the inevitable data security incident occurs.

Our Privacy, Cyber & Data Strategy and White Collar, Government & Internal Investigations teams answer the questions government contractors will have about how to evaluate the False Claims Act risks signaled by the Department of Justice’s latest cybersecurity initiative.