Two U.S. government-funded research laboratories and a defense contractor were targets of a “highly sophisticated” cyber attack last week, representatives of the organizations said, the latest in a string of assaults on U.S. interests.The attacks struck Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington; Thomas Jefferson National Laboratory in Newport News, Virginia and Battelle Corp, a government contractor that manages PNNL.
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