TruShield released its 2015 Annual Cyber Threat Intelligence Report, and the outlook: 2016 will see even more
ransomware and phishing attacks than last year. And guess who is facing the
biggest threat? Law firms. Paul Caiazzo, principal, chief security architect
for TruShield says, “The attackers know law firms process highly sensitive
information for their clients, and a lot of the time… attackers also know that
law firms and the legal industry in general lacks standardization on security
program structures, controls, and oversight.
This divergence can result in
security weaknesses.” The report also predicts that email will be the most
vulnerable access point for hackers and that mid-sized law firms (between
50-150 attorneys) will be the most targeted. How will the hackers target these
firms? Through the firms’ employees. Anyone with a public profile could fall
victim to a phishing attack. For law firms this year, TruShield advises
frequent (and thus early) detection of any threats to their information
technology systems.
What else does TruShield’s report tell us? Well,
last year, most of the cyber-attacks were initiated in China and Russia, but in
the U.S. the source of cyber-attacks came most frequently from California,
Michigan, Kansas and Washington state. And the report predicts that cyber-crime
will grow by 15-40% in 2016, along with a jump in cybercrime-as-a-service
attacks (i.e. a hacker enters a backdoor on a victim’s computer or device and
downloads malware, ransomware or other malicious software to the device or
network enabling the hacker to resell the victim to another data harvester).
Check out the full report and start updating
your security systems right away.
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