While healthcare and financial services companies have long been favorite targets, law firms are increasingly being attacked due to the sensitive client data they store. (Credit: Yanawut Suntornkij/Shutterstock.com) While healthcare and financial services companies have long been favorite targets, law firms are increasingly being attacked due to the sensitive client data they store. (Credit: Yanawut Suntornkij/Shutterstock.com)

The Colonial Pipeline ransomware event illuminated the dark deeds that cyber extortionists perpetrate every hour on businesses of all sizes and types, though few of the attacks have the news value of causing massive fuel shortages.

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