Urszula McCormack and Leonie Tear set out the steps to take to manage the case no company wants to encounter: being held to ransom in a cyber attack. Finding out that customer data has been hacked, exfiltrated and is being held to ransom by an unknown threat actor is...
From 1 December 2021, a claimant can make an application for summary judgment in Hong Kong High Court and District Court cases, notwithstanding an allegation of fraud. What is summary judgment, and how summary is it anyway? In short, a summary judgment application...
Over the past two years, I’ve seen an alarmingly high number of clients come to us as victims of cyber-fraud. The modus operandi can vary greatly. Examples of Cyber Fraud Here are some examples we have seen: Example 1: Email instructions from a “senior executive” of...
Financial crime is a truly global issue. As readers of this blog would know, it often involves cross-border issues, and the laws of multiple jurisdictions can apply. In this context, it perhaps unsurprising that the first alleged crime in outer space is connected to...
The United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (“OFAC”) has, for the first time, listed two Bitcoin addresses (“Addresses”) as identifiers on its Specially Designated and Blocked Persons (“SDN”) list. The Addresses are associated with...