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Law and water: Russia blamed for US court system break-in and Norwegian dam drama
Russian attackers reportedly spent months rummaging through the US federal court's creaky case-management system, while Norway reckons the same Kremlin-friendly miscreants took control of a dam's controls – a transatlantic double-act in legal files and floodgates.
The attack on Washington's systems, confirmed by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts on August 5, saw attackers break into the US court system's digital filing cabinet where they began rifling through the paperwork.
The CM/ECF platform (and its public-facing cousin PACER) is a patchwork of more than 200 locally run instances, many of them built when Windows XP was still considered cutting-edge, and is used by lawyers to file motions, submit evidence, and upload sensitive case material.
The intruders reportedly accessed the system via bugs that had been gathering dust since 2020 to make off with sealed documents, witness identities, and even a copy of the court system’s own blueprint, according to reports.
On Monday, the New York Times reported that Russia "is at least in part responsible" for the cyberattack, which is said to have been a "years-long effort."
"Some of 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," the paper stated.
The attack on Washington's systems, confirmed by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts on August 5, saw attackers break into the US court system's digital filing cabinet where they began rifling through the paperwork.
The CM/ECF platform (and its public-facing cousin PACER) is a patchwork of more than 200 locally run instances, many of them built when Windows XP was still considered cutting-edge, and is used by lawyers to file motions, submit evidence, and upload sensitive case material.
The intruders reportedly accessed the system via bugs that had been gathering dust since 2020 to make off with sealed documents, witness identities, and even a copy of the court system’s own blueprint, according to reports.
On Monday, the New York Times reported that Russia "is at least in part responsible" for the cyberattack, which is said to have been a "years-long effort."
"Some of 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," the paper stated.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/14/law_and_water_russia_blamed/]
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it was probably a couple of 11 yr-olds in Peru. 
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