Law firms are increasingly getting hit by stealthy, low-profile targeted attacks going after intelligence on their clients. Firms represent clients in mergers and acquisitions, or civil litigation, are getting hit. Attackers find law firms an attractive and relatively soft target for gathering the intelligence they want on a new weapons system or software. The FBI warned firms back in November 2009 of a massive phishing attack aimed at firms. The ATP adversary typically hails from various organized groups out of China who are hell-bent on snatching as much information.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/law-firms-under-siege