- The US submission system for Federal Court recently suffered a cyberattack
- The original reports claim that Russia at least partially owes
- Attacked targeted sealed court files
Russia has reportedly been linked to a worrying recent cyber attack against the US federal court experience system.
Reporting from New York Times (New), who said it spoke to people who are familiar with the case claims that there is evidence that Russia is at least partly responsible for the attack, which has been a “long -long” effort to break the system.
The reports added the searches, “included criminal cases between mid -level in the New York City area and several other jurisdictions, with some cases involving people with Russian and Eastern European surnames.”
Hacking sealed files
A cyberattack against the system was recently confirmed on August 7 by the US Court of Justice’s administrative office. However, Politico reported that the system had been attacked by an unknown threat actor since the beginning of July.
Throughout the United States, chief judges of district courts were asked to move cases with overseas ties from the general document management system.
An internal memo, seen by new and issued to officials of the Ministry of Justice, officials and chief judges in federal courts of administrators with the legal system, stated that “sustained and sophisticated cyber threat actors recently compromised sealed items,” continues with “This is still a pressing substance that requires immediate action.”
The Federal Court filing system, like many filing systems, is a scattered network that is constantly being used and updated with new items, and was built on a system that was first developed in 1996.
As a result, the system is considered to have several serious vulnerabilities where the system was previously broken by 2020.
There is still no known motive for the attack, but it is possible that if Russian intelligence services are involved, they could collect intelligence about the potential compromise of assets in the United States.
The same has been theorized about the telecommunications violations that hit the United States in 2024, which was attributed to China. In these attacks, threat actors violated a back door used by law enforcement to pursue court -proven wiretaps.
