Cyberattacks on Courts and Other Government Institutions

According to Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2016, only one of every five small to medium-size businesses that paid the ransom demand got their data back. The length of time it took city officials to announce a "malfunction" as the cause of the blaring sirens led to conspiracy theories and other speculation on social media that the "malfunction" was the result of a prank, or a test run by the city to see how people panic and emergency services would respond, or a disgruntled employee, or, as television or a movie would portray such an incident, a cover-up for a well-planned art or jewelry heist or nighttime bank robbery. In January 2014, cyberterrorists embarked upon a cyberattack on the federal court system that resulted in a brief outage affecting websites and the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) system. The Joint Technology Committee (JTC) was established by the Conference of State Court Administrators (COSCA), the National Association for Court Management (NACM), and the National Center for State Courts (NCSC).