WASHINGTON DC – The Department of Energy is among a group of federal agencies affected by Russian malware targeting government systems, Homeland Security officials revealed, according to The Associated Press.
Part of a wider, global campaign of ransomware targeting government institutions, the compromise is not severe, the government claims, and it does not foresee long-term security risks.
“Based on discussions we have had with industry partners… these intrusions are not being leveraged to gain broader access, to gain persistence into targeted systems, or to steal specific high-value information — in sum, as we understand it, this attack is largely an opportunistic one,” Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly said.
Easterly went on to emphasize that the U.S. government does not believe the compromise will have serious consequences.
“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.
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