Cybersecurity
Law firms see more cyberattacks, ransomware threats, new report says
Law firms are experiencing more cyberattacks, according to a new report. (Image from Shuttterstock)
Cyberattacks targeting law firms increased in 2025, according to a new report from Baker & Hostetler.
The report, according to Law360, also noted recent spikes across a range of sectors in ransomware payments and class action lawsuits resulting from these incidents.
Baker & Hostetler’s Data Security Incident Response Report, released Thursday, said the firm’s digital assets and data management practice group guided clients through more than 1,250 cyber incidents in 2025. The firm said it offered clients insights into the nature and scope of constantly evolving cyber threats, litigation exposure, regulatory enforcement and compliance risks.
The team’s work over the past year, Law360 reports, included handling incidents for an increasingly popular target for hackers—firms. While Baker & Hostetler reported responding to more than 30 firm incidents in 2024, that number “nearly doubled” in 2025, according to the firm.
The report attributed the increase in part to “the emergence of a threat actor known interchangeably as Chatty Spider, Silent Ransomware and Luna Moth, which specifically targeted law firms.”
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