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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Energy got ransom requests from the Russia-linked extortion group Cl0p at both its nuclear waste facility and scientific education facility that were recently hit in a global hacking campaign, a spokesperson said on Friday.

The DOE contractor Oak Ridge Associated Universities and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the New Mexico-based facility for disposal of defense-related radioactive nuclear waste, were hit in the attack, which was first reported on Thursday.

Data was "compromised" at the two DOE entities after hackers breached their systems through a security flaw in the file transfer tool MOVEit Transfer. The software is widely-used by organisations around the world to share sensitive data.

From U.S. government departments to the UK's telecom regulator and energy giant Shell, a range of victims have emerged since Burlington, Massachusetts-based Progress Software found the security flaw in its MOVEit Transfer product last month.

The wide-ranging impact of it shows how even the most security-minded federal agencies are struggling to defend against ransomware attacks. Ransomware gangs typically scour for such widely-used tools.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said Thursday that several federal agencies had been hit by the MOVEit breach. It did not say which ones, but added that there had not been much impact to the federal civilian executive branch.

Analysts say more victims are likely to emerge in the coming weeks.

The ransom requests to DOE came in emails to each facility, said the spokesperson, without revealing how much money was demanded. "They came in individually, not as kind of a blind carbon copy," the spokesperson said. "The two entities that received them did not engage," with Cl0p and there was no indication the ransom requests were withdrawn, he said.

The DOE, which manages U.S. nuclear weapons and nuclear waste sites related to the military, notified Congress of the breach and is participating in investigations with law enforcement and the CISA.

Cl0p did not respond to requests for comment, but in a post on its website, it said, “WE DON'T HAVE ANY GOVERNMENT DATA” and suggested that should the hackers inadvertently have picked up such data in their mass theft “WE STILL DO THE POLITE THING AND DELETE ALL.”

Recorded Future analyst Allan Liska said Cl0p was likely making a big deal out of how they purportedly deleted government data in an attempt to protect themselves from retaliation from Washington and other governments.

(Reporting by Timothy Gardner and Raphael Satter; Additional reporting by Zeba Siddiqui; Editing by Leslie Adler and Daniel Wallis)

celadon posted:

when i first heard about self propelled guns the mental image i got was the artillery firing backward to push itself forward which probably isnt true but is fun to visualize

misterevilcat posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfzbaELw4uY
Paging frosted flake to the thread. Chinese artillery seems to be vastly superior to the west's with simply.....way more guns. The crane reloaded grad mlrs pods also a nice innovation. Big emphasis on self propelled guns as well. Really innovating on soviet doctrine IMHO.

Frosted Flake posted:

lol I read a paper about the new Chinese artillery doctrine last month and it was like "Well obviously the equipment is too modern, there's too much of it and the modernization happened too quickly, so obviously they'll be unable to use any of it"

misterevilcat posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfzbaELw4uY
Paging frosted flake to the thread. Chinese artillery seems to be vastly superior to the west's with simply.....way more guns. The crane reloaded grad mlrs pods also a nice innovation. Big emphasis on self propelled guns as well. Really innovating on soviet doctrine IMHO.

KomradeX posted:

Oh my god the guest 3 mintues of this alone is hilarious

https://youtu.be/nTaF9N5m-M0

yellowcar posted:

seems retarded

Frosted Flake posted:

lol I read a paper about the new Chinese artillery doctrine last month and it was like "Well obviously the equipment is too modern, there's too much of it and the modernization happened too quickly, so obviously they'll be unable to use any of it"

KomradeX posted:

Oh my god the guest 3 mintues of this alone is hilarious

https://youtu.be/nTaF9N5m-M0

quote:

China seeks to create the world in its own image.

cat botherer posted:

misterevilcat posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfzbaELw4uY
Paging frosted flake to the thread. Chinese artillery seems to be vastly superior to the west's with simply.....way more guns. The crane reloaded grad mlrs pods also a nice innovation. Big emphasis on self propelled guns as well. Really innovating on soviet doctrine IMHO.

Ardennes posted:

(I will say one thing China will have going for them is simply they can produce as much ammo as they want and I really doubt they are going to run out of it.)

Cerebral Bore posted:

it's more like china can simply produce as much of virtually anything as they need, and as such they have the ability to adapt very quickly if the hi-tech poo poo turns out to be a dud

Cerebral Bore posted:

personally i'm not convinced that "let's put a lot more conventional artillery in our armies" is some insurmountable doctrinal change, especially when you have the manpower pool that china does

like, they could just mobilize a bunch of pla militia guys and build and train new artillery brigades from scratch if they really had to. it would take a while sure, but time would always be on china's side in any potential war

Cerebral Bore posted:

the us has what, a dozen stealth bombers that are operational? no way in hell would they risk them against an opponent with real air defenses

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

they get forward deployed to Diego Garcia sometimes. that may have ended recently, though? one crashed there on takeoff a while back

Ardennes posted:

Going back to this video, it does seem like the Chinese are trying to find a middle ground between the Russian and the American way of doing things with more artillery than American formations but substantially less than Soviet/Russian ones along with a longer term trend toward modernization.

That said, I wonder if they aren't still falling into a mistake of trusting too much in maneuver warfare rather than outright firepower. It makes sense they are replacing their towed artillery with SPGs, but at the same time, it seems their brigades are still fairly lightly armed in terms of simply amount of KGs of RDX they can put downrange versus the Russians. Obviously, they have difficult expectations (including littoral and amphibious warfare) but it does seem a deficit.

In addition, the narrator, as a Westerner, naturally likes to poo poo on the Russian "manual" way of doing things as so old fashion and obsolete, but I wonder how the crane/cargo box arrangement would actually work in high-intensity warfare. It is nifty, but also another vehicle that has to be protected and I wonder how it is going to work in battlefield conditions versus just have guys shoving rockets into the MRLS (it may not be that easy to operate a crane if the operator is under fire).

I would say the current war in Ukraine has showed that warfare may have not changed as much as we think and while everyone has been sold on light mobile formations, what happens when things settle down and you just need to smash the enemy with as much firepower as humanly possible?

(I will say one thing China will have going for them is simply they can produce as much ammo as they want and I really doubt they are going to run out of it.)

GlassEye-Boy posted:

china may not need as many Kgs of explosive to get the same effect. looks like they perfected production of CL-20.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3222649/china-has-tamed-worlds-most-powerful-explosive-military-scientists-say

Hatebag posted:

I Is someone gonna nuke the azores or drc or the bahamas? Probably not

endocriminologist posted:

Computers ftw

Cao Ni Ma posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBQVR4epfBQ

Great video about the challenges of military procurement and while he does make a ton of examples from multiple armies. But its not a concidence than when he's talking about poo poo theres a picture of an f35 or zumwalt destroyer

The Oldest Man posted:

Proposed solution section isn't worth much though since he kind of glosses over the fact that the bad requirements and contracts are as much a product of the defense industry as they are the government, if not more so

The Oldest Man posted:

Proposed solution section isn't worth much though since he kind of glosses over the fact that the bad requirements and contracts are as much a product of the defense industry as they are the government, if not more so