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The U.S. government has been hit in a global hacking campaign that exploited a vulnerability in widely used software but does not expect it to have significant impact, the nation's cyber watchdog agency said on Thursday. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency &...

But the news adds to a growing tally of victims of a sprawling hacking campaign that began two weeks ago and has hit major U.S. universities and state governments.

It's yet unclear which agencies were affected or how many.

Not expected to have a "significant impact".

A contractor at a US national lab and a radioactive waste storage site managed by the Department of Energy were among the victims of wide-ranging cyberattack that saw several federal agencies hacked, according to a person familiar with the matter.

A global cyberattack breached several United States government agencies, including the Energy Department, and was allegedly conducted by a Russian cybercriminal group.

It's not yet clear which US government agencies were hit as part of this cyberattack, nor if they had any files taken as a result. A known hacker group called CL0P is a suspect in some of the attacks.

Several US federal government agencies and prominent institutions have fallen victim to a widespread cyberattack that exploited a vulnerability in widely used file-transfer software. The hacking...

Several US government agencies have been hit in a global hacking campaign that exploited a vulnerability in a widely used software, the United States cyber-watchdog agency said Thursday. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said several federal agencies had experienced intrusions following the discovery of a weakness in the file transfer software MOVEit, […]

Several U.S. federal government agencies have been hit in a global hacking campaign that exploited a vulnerability in widely used file-transfer software, the nation's cyber watchdog agency said on Thursday.