Hackers used stolen accounting data and vulnerability on the outdated Federal Judicial System server. They are looking for secret documents.
For many years, the Russian Federation hackers have access to the US court system and deliberately stole the classified materials in spy cases, launching money and activities of foreign agents. Bloomberg reported it.
It is noted that hackers use stolen accounting data and weakness on the outdated Federal Judicial System server. They are looking for specific documents that judges have decided to keep secret.
According to investigators, attacking is a group acting under the auspice of the Russian Federation. It is unclear that exactly the exact hackers have penetrated the system at the first time and when US authorities learned about hacking. According to one of the publication’s interlocutors, just in the fall of last year the courts hired a cybersecurity company to eliminate the consequences of attacking.
It is reported that accessing long -term access to closed materials causes serious concerns. Spy documents, financial crimes, money laundering and the work of foreign agents are that. These materials, looking for themselves in the hands of the attacks, can be used for pressure, blackmailing or interrupting investigations.
“These records are one of the most important documents owned by the US government,” said Jake Brown, a former deputy national director of cybersecurity in the White House.
He added that the judicial system was that Congress was underway, which made it vulnerable to such attacks.
The judicial department refused the comments, only noticing that they took additional measures to protect in response to “strengthened and complex attacks on the cyber.”
As you know, this is not the first hacking of the US judicial system. In 2020, a large -scale data leak was recorded, which also accused Russian hackers. Attacks then used malicious code in solarwinds software.
Last year, in November, the courts attracted Unit 42 Specialists (Palo Alto Networks) to eliminate the consequences of the final attack. By the end of 2024, the task was completed.
Earlier it was found that behind a hacker attack on the Internal IT system of the General Prosecutor of the Netherlands (OM), due to which it has been disconnected from the Internet for a long time, it could be Russia.
Remember that Great Britain has accused the Russian Military Reconnaissance (GRU) of CybersPensship using complex malware.
It was also reported that in Germany they recorded a trace of Russia on cyber attacks in Bundeswehr.
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