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   The US Federal Court Filing System has been breached - and all the fingers    
   are pointing to Russia   
      
   Date:   
   Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:04:00 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   Russia blamed as being at least partially responsible for a breach at US   
   Federal Courts Filing System.   
      
   FULL STORY   
      
   Russia has allegedly been linked to a worrying recent cyberattack against the   
   US Federal Court Filing System .    
      
   Reporting from the New York Times (NYT), which said it spoke to people   
   familiar with the matter, claims there is evidence Russia is at least   
   partially responsible for the attack, which has been a yearslong effort to   
   breach the system.    
      
   The reports added the searches, included midlevel criminal cases 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 most recently confirmed on August 7 by   
   the Administrative Office of the US Courts. However, Politico reported that   
   the system had been under attack by an unknown threat actor since early July.   
      
   Furthermore, across the US, chief judges of district courts were told to move   
   cases with overseas ties off the regular document-management system.    
      
   An internal memo, seen by NYT and issued to Justice Department officials,   
   clerks and chief judges in federal courts by administrators with the court   
   system stated that, persistent and sophisticated cyber threat actors have   
   recently compromised sealed records, continuing with, This remains an URGENT   
   MATTER that requires immediate action.    
      
   The Federal Court Filing System, like many filing systems, is a sprawling   
   network that is continuously used and updated with new records, and was built   
   on a system first developed in 1996.    
      
   As a result, the system is considered to have several serious    
   vulnerabilities, with the system previously being breached in 2020.    
      
   There is still currently no known motive for the attack, but it is possible   
   that if Russian intelligence services are involved they could be gathering   
   intelligence on the potential compromise of assets in the US.    
      
   The same has been theorized about the telecoms breaches that hit the US in   
   2024, which were attributed to China. In these attacks, threat actors    
   breached a backdoor used by law enforcement to pursue court-ordered wiretaps.   
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/the-us-federal-court-filing-system-has-   
   been-breached-and-all-the-fingers-are-pointing-to-russia   
      
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