Documented social engineering incidents targeting the legal services sector, sourced and fact-checked.
A federal grand jury in Columbia, South Carolina indicted 12 people on 12 counts (conspiracy, wire fraud, bank fraud.
ConfirmedPosing as NatWest bank security, vishing criminals convinced Surrey solicitor Karen Mackie to wire £734,000 of client money to fraudulent accounts.
ConfirmedGootLoader operators hijacked Google search rankings for legal-agreement phrases.
ConfirmedeSentire's Threat Response Unit blocked 10 separate attacks across six unnamed law firms in Jan-Feb 2023, foiling two parallel campaigns.
ConfirmedAir Canada admitted in a sworn Ontario Superior Court affidavit that it hired private investigators who twice took trash from outside WestJet co-founder.
ConfirmedAfter going quiet in March 2025, Gootloader returned in November 2025 with a glyph-swapping web font and a malformed ZIP to hide malware.
Social Engineering Examples