The United States Department of Energy has received ransom requests from the Russia-linked extortion group Cl0p at both its nuclear waste facility and the scientific education facilities that were recently hit in a global hacking campaign, a spokesperson said.
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 was first reported on Thursday, which exploited a vulnerability in a widely used software. Data was “compromised” at two entities within the energy department when hackers gained access through a security flaw in the MOVEit file-transfer software.
