Data Privacy
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Data Security
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Fraud Management & Cybercrime
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In this week’s update, four editors with ISMG explore the crumbling state of ransomware group Black Basta and implications for other cybercrime gangs, the expanding impact of U.S. health data privacy laws, and whether large language models are truly what they seem.
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The panelists – Anna Delaney, director, productions; Mathew Schwartz, executive editor of DataBreachToday and Europe; Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, executive editor, HealthcareInfoSecurity; and Tom Field, senior vice president, editorial – discussed:
- The decline of the ransomware group Black Basta due to internal chaos and lost affiliates, even though ransomware continues to be a resilient business model with new groups constantly emerging;
- The tightening of U.S. health data privacy laws included Washington’s My Health My Data Act and New York’s proposed Health Information Privacy Act, and their impact on businesses, regulatory enforcement and the growing legal battles over consumer health data protection;
- Highlights from an interview with cybersecurity and privacy experts Edna Conway, Michelle Dennedy and Wendy Nather on key trends for 2025 and how to distinguish real LLM applications from marketing hype.
The ISMG Editors’ Panel runs weekly. Don’t miss our previous installments, including the Feb. 14 edition on privacy fears related to the U.S. government’s AI overhaul and the Feb. 21 edition on Russia’s ransomware purge.