Banks and law firms have one thing in common these days – cyber fraudsters see their emails as the perfect way to get at clients and supply chain partners.
Take, for example, the attack on a London law firm before Christmas in which criminals sent out 1,600 highly convincing decoy emails to the company’s clients, asking them to click on an “urgent” attachment. The hackers were intent on fraud and had gained access to the server of the London firm Anthony Gold Solicitors so they could send out malicious email attachments in an attempt to uncover clients’ log-in details.