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By their very nature, they hold considerable amounts of private \u201cPII\u201d data (personally identifiable information).\u00a0 On top of that, law firms are typically busy, pressured environments where it is possible that a busy lawyer might be vulnerable to a cyber-criminal\u2019s clever fake sites and emails.<\/p>\n
Recently one of our clients was targeted in a clever scam<\/a> attempt that was obviously customise to try to trick them \u2013 fortunately our client was aware and vigilant and the attack failed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is part of a growing wave of attacks that has caught the attention of NZ\u2019s national cyber-security agency, NCSC.\u00a0 Tom Roberts, NCSC threat and incident response team lead from NCSC said that \u201cin recent weeks his organisation had seen attacks against laws firms on an almost daily basis and there were concerns some may have not yet realised their systems had been hacked.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Lawyers urged to check IT systems as scammers target clients and trust accounts – Law News<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type="2_5" _builder_version="4.27.4" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}" theme_builder_area="post_content"][et_pb_image src="https:\/\/new.kinetics.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Hacker-and-Lawyer.jpeg" title_text="Hacker and Lawyer" _builder_version="4.27.4" _module_preset="default" border_radii="on|20px|20px|20px|20px" box_shadow_style="preset1" global_colors_info="{}" theme_builder_area="post_content"][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.27.4" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}" theme_builder_area="post_content"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.27.4" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}" theme_builder_area="post_content"][et_pb_text _builder_version="4.27.4" _module_preset="default" global_colors_info="{}" theme_builder_area="post_content"]<\/p>\n Kinetics KARE Foundation<\/a> clients can take comfort in the knowledge that the security and monitoring services in place are designed to protect against these types of threats.\u00a0 We\u2019re regularly evaluating the technologies and processes to improve these layers of protection too.\u00a0<\/p>\n If you\u2019re not protected with Kinetics KARE Foundation<\/a>, we are recommending, like the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), that you check your IT systems.\u00a0 Kinetics can help.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n