Legal Threat Intelligence Spotlight: Protecting Your Law Firm’s Data, Clients, and Reputation

Law firms and legal services organizations have unparalleled access to non-public, confidential data across all facets of the public and private sectors.

As a result, they face significant cyber threats from adversaries looking to publicly disrupt operations and damage reputations to extort payments, steal and sell sensitive data associated with specific clients and activities, and retaliate for client representation as a form of political activism.  

In this threat intelligence spotlight report, eSentire’s Threat Response Unit (TRU) provides a threat analysis of the most common cyber threats detected across our global legal customer base.  

Key takeaways include:

• Factors that have led to a rise of cyberattacks against the legal sector
• The most impactful cyber threats (e.g., GootLoader, Emotet, Qakbot, etc.) and attacker tactics used to target law firms and legal services organizations based on TRU’s threat research
• How your law firm can build a foundation of cyber resilience
• Recommendations from TRU on how your organization can reduce the risk of downtime and revenue disruption