Global Cyberattacks Target US Government and Energy Agencies.

The US Department of Energy has received ransom demands from the Russia-linked extortion group Cl0p at both its nuclear waste facility and scientific education facilities that were recently hit in a global hacking campaign. The energy department contractor Oak Ridge Associated Universities and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the New Mexico-based facility for disposal of defence-related radioactive nuclear waste, were hit in the attack, which exploited a vulnerability in a widely used software. The requests came in emails to each facility, but the two entities did not engage with Cl0p, and there was no indication that the ransom requests were withdrawn.