Bloomberg Law
March 11, 2016, 10:40 PM UTC

FBI Alert Warns of Criminals Seeking Access to Law Firm Networks

Gabe Friedman
Freelancer

Earlier this month, the FBI’s cyber division issued an alert that it has information that hackers are specifically targeting international law firms as part of an insider trading scheme.

“In a recent cyber criminal forum post, a criminal actor posted an advertisement to hire a technically proficient hacker for the purposes of gaining sustained access to the networks of multiple international law firms,” the alert from March 3rd stated.

The FBI alert — 160304-001 — didn’t share any other information, such as the name of the forum where it saw this post, or when it exactly it was posted. But it did say that it believed the ...

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