{"id":1959833,"date":"2023-06-28T20:02:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T00:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/french-uk-watchdogs-say-hackers-for-hire-are-targeting-law-firms\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T20:03:49","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T00:03:49","slug":"french-uk-watchdogs-say-hackers-for-hire-are-targeting-law-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/french-uk-watchdogs-say-hackers-for-hire-are-targeting-law-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"French and UK watchdogs warn of law firm targeting by hackers-for-hire."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffrench-uk-watchdogs-say-hackers-for-hire-are-targeting-law-firms%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1959833&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2>Mercenary Hackers Targeting Law Firms to Steal Data, Warn French and British Authorities<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>By Raphael Satter<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(Reuters) \u2013 Mercenary hackers increasingly are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hobbs-executive-order-sex-reassignment-surgery-is-covered-by-insurance-for-state-employees\/\" title=\"Hobbs executive order: State employees' insurance now covers sex reassignment surgery.\">targeting law firms<\/a> in a bid to steal data that could tip the balance in legal cases, French and British authorities say, echoing a Reuters investigation that uncovered the phenomenon last year.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>In a pair of reports published over the past week, the cyber watchdog agencies of France and the United Kingdom cataloged an array of digital challenges faced by law firms, including threats posed by ransomware and malicious insiders. Both also highlighted the dangers posed by mercenary hackers hired by litigants to filch sensitive information from courtroom opponents.<\/p>\n<p>The London-based National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said in its report published on June 22 that it was increasingly seeing \u201chackers-for-hire\u201d brought in \u201cto gain the upper hand in business dealings or legal disputes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>France\u2019s cyber watchdog, known as ANSSI, said in its report released Tuesday that \u201cmercenaries with offensive cyber capacities\u201d were increasingly targeting the legal sector. ANSSI cited Reuters reporting last year on how mercenary hackers based out of India were being drafted to help sway high-profile cases in the United States, Europe and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>That story \u2013 which was based on interviews with victims, researchers, investigators, former U.S. government officials, lawyers and hackers, plus a review of court records and thousands of emails \u2013 revealed that hacking groups based in India were responsible for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/french-uk-watchdogs-say-hackers-for-hire-are-targeting-law-firms\/\" title=\"French and UK watchdogs warn of law firm targeting by hackers-for-hire.\">years-long hacking spree<\/a> that targeted some 1,000 attorneys at 108 different law firms worldwide. 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This echoes a Reuters investigation from last year, which uncovered this trend. The cyber watchdog has recently published two reports on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1959834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1959833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oann"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1959834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}