Scary news this morning from Hogan Lovells, where the Washington office building received a bomb threat this morning.
There’s no indication that the threat targeted Hogan Lovells specifically as opposed to another tenant (or was made for the purpose of general criminal mayhem). As the alert notes, these threats are generally not credible, but sending everyone home is the right move not only for safety but to provide law enforcement the space needed to conduct a thorough investigation.
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Based on our experience in recent client matters, we have seen an escalating threat posed by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) information technology (IT) workers engaging in sophisticated schemes to evade US and UN sanctions, steal intellectual property from US companies, and/or inject ransomware into company IT environments, in support of enhancing North Korea’s illicit weapons program.
From our perspective here at Above the Law, we’re assuming someone called the firm “HoLove” one too many times and the comms team snapped.
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