CrowdStrike 2026 Legal Threat Landscape Report: Cybercriminals Blur Digital and Physical Lines in Attacks on U.S. Law Firms
CrowdStrike released its 2026 Legal Threat Landscape Report, finding that financially motivated adversaries accounted for 82% of observed malicious activity against the legal sector. The report highlights a 129% surge in CHATTY SPIDER activity, including recruits physically infiltrating law firms, and a 39% year-over-year rise in legal entities named on data leak sites (455 total).
Key figures
- Extortion yoy increase
- 39%
- Named adversaries tracked
- more than 290
- Chatty spider activity growth
- 129%
- Legal entities named on data leak sites
- 455
- Financially motivated share of legal sector activity
- 82%
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