This morning, many district courts, including the Southern District of California, are receiving reports of spoofed, phishing CM/ECF notices appearing to be system generated and asking the recipient to respond. If you receive a questionable CM/ECF notice, please do not click on links or open attachments. Instead, check the notice against the docket in PACER.
There has been nationwide reporting of fake Notices of Electronic Filing (NEFs) being sent to attorneys and law firms across the country. These fake NEFs are phishing attempts to convince recipients to respond back to the emails. Once a recipient replies to the email they are sent a follow-on email containing a link to access a document that leads the user to a malicious website. Please be sure to always validate cases and case documentation through CM/ECF only, and to never download any attachments or click any links from unofficial or questionable sources.
U.S. Courts News has Electronic Filing Scam Targets Attorneys -- Attorneys across the country are being targeted with fake electronic filing notifications, in which emails purporting to come from the federal Judiciary’s Case Management/Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) system lead recipients to a malicious website with computer viruses.
In similar news, Law360 has Wash. Courts' Website Goes Dark After 'Unauthorized Activity'
- The Washington state courts' website was down for a second day Tuesday following an outage officials attributed to "unauthorized activity," though few details were available.
- The Washington State Bar Association published a statement on its website saying the state Court of Appeals' e-filing portal "is currently experiencing system unavailability, and unfortunately, we do not have an estimated time for restoration."
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