A Russian ransomware gang breaches the Energy Department and other federal agencies

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The Department of Energy and several other federal agencies were compromised in a Russian cyber-extortion gang’s global hack of a file-transfer program popular with corporations and governments

, but the impact was not expected to be great, Homeland Security officials said Thursday.

“Although we are very concerned about this campaign and working on it with urgency, this is not a campaign like SolarWinds that presents a systemic risk to our national security or our nation’s networks,” she added. The Oregon Department of Transportation confirmed Thursday that the attackers accessed personal information, some sensitive, for about 3.5 million people to whom the state issued identity cards or driver’s licenses.

U.S. officials “have no evidence to suggest coordination between Cl0p and the Russian government,” the official said.

 

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