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Kyle Alspach
The accurate ‘ESXiArgs’ ransomware campaign has compromised thousands of servers running VMware’s ESXi hypervisor.
If customers haven’t seen their virtual infrastructure as a likely target for ransomware attacks in the past, VMware is hoping the accurate campaign that compromised thousands of ESXi servers will change their view on that.
In a statement Wednesday, VMware indicated there is no denial on its part about the fact that malicious actors are increasingly going after customers running its virtualization platforms, acknowledging that virtual infrastructure is now a “high-value target” for attackers.
[Related: VMware ESXi Ransomware Attacks: 5 Things To Know]
The accurate “ESXiArgs” ransomware campaign has targeted customers that run the VMware ESXi hypervisor, and an estimate by the FBI and a federal cybersecurity agency put the number of compromised servers worldwide at 3,800 as of last week.
The attacks began in early February and have targeted organizations in countries including the U.S., Canada, France and Germany, according to cybersecurity vendor Censys.
While infections peaked on Feb. 3, the attacks have been continuing, and between Feb. 11 and 12 there were 500 additional hosts infected with the ESXiArgs ransomware, Censys said in a post Wednesday.
VMware released a statement to media Wednesday saying that “the accurate ESXiArgs ransomware attacks have highlighted important truths about protecting virtual infrastructure.”
“The important truth is that virtual infrastructure is a high-value target, precisely because organizations run their most important workloads there, and that threat actors are continuously evolving their tools and tactics to work in those environments,” VMware said in a follow-up statement to CRN.
Ransomware attacks on virtualization platforms have already been on the rise for some time: Research from Mandiant, released in April 2023, pinpointed a “significant increase” in such attacks. Mandiant reported at the time that it had been observing the increase over the previous six to 12 months, and noted that it had been seeing numerous ransomware groups target VMware’s vSphere and ESXi platforms.
The scope of the ESXiArgs campaign, however, has brought a lot more attention to the threat. The attacks have exploited a two-year-old vulnerability (tracked at CVE-2021-21974) that affects older versions of VMware ESXi, researchers have said.
According to cybersecurity vendor Wiz, 12 percent of servers running the VMware ESXi hypervisor were unpatched against the vulnerability, which was first disclosed in 2021, as of earlier this month. Rapid7 research found that a total of 18,581 internet-connected ESXi servers were vulnerable to the flaw as of late January.
Robby Hill, CEO of Florence, S.C.-based MSP HillSouth, told CRN he questions why a business would ever think it made sense to put its ESXi servers on the internet. VM servers are the core of an organization’s server infrastructure, he said, and their only utility is providing the execution of the VMs.
“They should never be exposed to the public,” Hill said. “It seems like this was almost bound to happen by designing the setup at these companies so poorly.”
In its statement to CRN, VMware said that “to be resilient, organizations will need to prioritize security as an ongoing task, including keeping software up to date and hardening against the threat landscape.”
On Wednesday, the company published a blog about how its vSphere platform can be helpful to customers with such challenges.
“VMware is urging customers to harden their virtual infrastructure, and we are delivering guidance on how to update software with zero down-time and better configure their deployments to defend against malware threats that target virtual infrastructure,” the company said in its statement Wednesday. “We encourage organizations to enforce identity access management, modernize security architecture, and other hygiene practices for ransomware resilience.”
There has been some good news on climate change. Not enough. But good news nonetheless.
First of all, over the past decade or so, several major economies including the United States have shifted away from burning coal to generate electricity. Coal is the dirtiest of fossil fuels, and historically speaking a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions.
There are still coal power plants being built in the world, but the overall trend away from coal toward cleaner options, like solar, is progress. The cost to build solar power plants has fallen enough that, in some cases, it is now one of the most price-competitive options for generating electricity. This is a significant financial milestone.
Cars that burn gas are a major contributor to planet-warming greenhouse emissions, but in the past few years some of the world’s largest automakers have launched aggressive efforts to pivot to making more electric vehicles while phasing out gasoline models. The importance of a significant polluting industry embracing this change, and competing with one another to be better at it, can’t be underestimated.
Car buyers have been responding. As recently as a half-decade or so ago, electric-car sales were negligible in many parts of the world, but have risen rapidly since. Electric vehicles aren’t perfect of course, but as a general rule they’re cleaner than gasoline cars. (If you’re interested in reading more about that, try searching this F.A.Q. for “How green are electric cars?”)
The spread of electric vehicles also means that some of the difficulties of owning one (for example, finding charging stations nearby) will likely resolve themselves more quickly as demand grows from drivers. That, in turn, could encourage sales.
In 2023 the United States passed new legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act, that is widely considered the most important legislative effort to fight climate change in the nation’s history by encouraging a transition to cleaner energy and offering a range of incentives to businesses and individuals to clean up their act.
(This Times guide explains how you might be able to claim some of that money by, for instance, buying an electric car or installing a heat pump.)
Lastly, here’s a big one: For reasons like the above, in the past decade or so the world has made significant progress toward slowing global warming and avoiding particularly extreme consequences from climate change. Not nearly enough progress, mind you, but significant nonetheless.
Specifically, before the 2015 Paris Agreement, some estimates put the world on track to warm in the range of 3.6 degrees Celsius above preindustrial times. Scientists widely agree that if average global temperatures were to increase that much, it would be devastating socially and economically. Now, however, according to a United Nations report in 2023, the world is on track to heat between 2.1 degrees and 2.9 degrees by 2100.
That’s still very dangerous.
However, if the nations of the world act as aggressively as they promise, there remains a chance to hold that increase to below 2 degrees Celsius, according to scientists. That’s a big “if,” of course. It would require a tremendous amount of work by the nations of the world, on an extremely swift timetable over the next decade or two, to hit the lower targets for limiting global warming.
However, since you asked about good news, let’s keep it positive. Even if there’s a lot of hard work to do, progress has been made on important fronts.
There’s now even a movement, “OK Doomer,” that basically says, stop it with the gloomy takes and focus on things that will fix the problem.
VMware advises users with VMware ESXi servers to perform updates as soon as possible to counter the accurate ESXiArgs ransomware and disable the OpenSLP service. In addition, it is confirmed that the attack is not a zero-day vulnerability.
VMware states in a response that the attack does not involve a zero-day vulnerability. In the statement, VMare indicates that it involves so-called End of General Support (EOGS) and or obsolete products with vulnerabilities already addressed.
More concretely, researchers already discovered, it specifically concerns VMware ESXi versions 7.x for build ESXi70U1c-17325551, ESXi versions 6.7.x for build ESXi670-202102401-SG and ESXi versions 6.5.x for build ESXi650-202102101-SG. Especially targeted are ESXi hypervisor versions 6.x to 6.7.
Advice to upgrade and disable OpenSPL
According to the virtualization and cloud specialist, patches and so-called VMware Security Advisories (VMSAs) have been available for the vulnerabilities of these specific versions for some time. VMware, therefore, urges users to update to the latest versions of VMware ESXi and/or VMware vSphere components as soon as possible.
It also urges users to disable the OpenSPL service. VMware ESXi versions ESXi 7.0 U2c and ESXi 8.0 GA released in 2021 already have this service disabled by default.
Global ransomware attack
Yesterday it was announced that since Feb. 3, thousands of VMware ESXi servers worldwide, mainly in Europe, the U.S. and Canada, have been attacked by the new ransomware variant ESXiArgs. The ransomware gains access to servers running the outdated and unpatched software via a so-called “heap overflow” in the standard upcoming Open SLP service. Very notable in the attack that the so-called Sosemanuk algorithm, among others, was used.
Tip: Global ransomware attack on thousands of VMware ESXi servers
Cloud News
Mark Haranas
CRN breaks down the 20 of the most important and influential cloud infrastructure companies of 2023—from Dell, HPE and VMware to AWS, Red Hat and Google.
Cloud infrastructure powers public, private and hybrid cloud environments with hundreds of billions of dollars up for grabs as more and more businesses migrate to the cloud.
IT research firm Gartner is expecting total end-user spending on public cloud services alone to reach a record $592 billion in 2023.
“Cloud migration is not stopping,” said Sid Nag, vice president and analyst at Gartner in November.
Many of the largest technology companies in the world—from Amazon Web Services and Google to Huawei and Alibaba—are investing heavily in cloud infrastructure to power businesses of all shapes and sizes.
These companies provide cloud computing infrastructure, such as servers, networking and storage hardware, to customers in a Opex, consumption-based or as-a-service model.
There are various forms of cloud infrastructure market leaders, from hardware titans Dell Technologies, HPE and Cisco Systems, to cloud services leaders Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google Cloud, as well as companies like data center provider Digital Realty and cloud software star VMware.
In the U.S. alone, cloud infrastructure services reached $84 billion from third-quarter 2021 to third-quarter 2023, according to IT research firm Synergy Research Group.
“U.S. spending on cloud services is now approaching a $100 billion annual run rate and continues to grow by 30 percent per year, which is pretty unusual for such a large IT market,” said John Dinsdale, a chief analyst at Synergy Research Group. “This helps to underpin Synergy’s cloud forecasts, which continue to show strong growth over the next five years.”
Powered by cloud infrastructure, research firm Gartner predicts that enterprise IT spending on cloud computing will overtake spending on traditional IT by 2025 within the massive infrastructure software, business process services, application software and infrastructure markets.
As part of CRN’s 2023 Cloud 100, here are the 20 companies leading the cloud infrastructure market in 2023.
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Global End to End Multi Cloud Technology Market Research Report 2023-2028, by Manufacturers, Regions, Types and Applications
1 Introduction
1.1 Objective of the Study
1.2 Definition of the Market
1.3 Market Scope
1.3.1 Market Segment by Type, Application and Marketing Channel
1.3.2 Major Regions Covered (North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Mid East and Africa)
1.4 Years Considered for the Study (2015-2028)
1.5 Currency Considered (U.S. Dollar)
1.6 Stakeholders
2 Key Findings of the Study
3 Market Dynamics
3.1 Driving Factors for this Market
3.2 Factors Challenging the Market
3.3 Opportunities of the Global End to End Multi Cloud Technology Market (Regions, Growing/Emerging Downstream Market Analysis)
3.4 Technological and Market Developments in the End to End Multi Cloud Technology Market
3.5 Industry News by Region
3.6 Regulatory Scenario by Region/Country
3.7 Market Investment Scenario Strategic Recommendations Analysis
4 Value Chain of the End to End Multi Cloud Technology Market
4.1 Value Chain Status
4.2 Upstream Raw Material Analysis
4.3 Midstream Major Company Analysis (by Manufacturing Base, by Product Type)
4.4 Distributors/Traders
4.5 Downstream Major Customer Analysis (by Region)
5 Global End to End Multi Cloud Technology Market-Segmentation by Type
6 Global End to End Multi Cloud Technology Market-Segmentation by Application
7 Global End to End Multi Cloud Technology Market-Segmentation by Marketing Channel
7.1 Traditional Marketing Channel (Offline)
7.2 Online Channel
8 Competitive Intelligence Company Profiles
9 Global End to End Multi Cloud Technology Market-Segmentation by Geography
9.1 North America
9.2 Europe
9.3 Asia-Pacific
9.4 Latin America
9.5 Middle East and Africa
10 Future Forecast of the Global End to End Multi Cloud Technology Market from 2023-2028
10.1 Future Forecast of the Global End to End Multi Cloud Technology Market from 2023-2028 Segment by Region
10.2 Global End to End Multi Cloud Technology Production and Growth Rate Forecast by Type (2023-2028)
10.3 Global End to End Multi Cloud Technology Consumption and Growth Rate Forecast by Application (2023-2028)
11 Appendix
11.1 Methodology
12.2 Research Data Source
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A dozen years ago, Eric Schmidt forecast the AI pivot that’s playing out this week. And the questions it prompts — around the link economy, fair use, and aggregation — are more real than ever.
If you stick around long enough, even the most exotic future turns into the present.
At least that’s what I thought when I remembered an old piece I wrote here at Nieman Lab all the way back in 2011 — one that seems newly relevant today.It was about an on-stage interview that then-Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt gave to Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher at what was then the annual All Things Digital conference. They cover a lot of then-hot topics, from Google losing to Facebook on “the friend thing” to whether it should buy Twitter. But there’s one stretch that stood out, then and now, as having outsized importance to news companies.
Mossberg started out by ragging on the declining quality of Google’s search results:
Speaking as a consumer, I find my Google search results to be more and more polluted with junk that I don’t want to see or that doesn’t seem relevant.Is your basic algorithmic approach — which was so successful and so different from everybody else, in PageRank — still the right way to go?
Or is there some opportunity for somebody to come in and do to you what you did to Altavista?
(Altavista being the web’s leading search engine circa 1998, before Google ate its lunch.)
Schmidt defends the quality of Google’s results, but then pivots:
But the other thing that we’re doing that’s more strategic is we’re trying to move from answers that are link-based to answers that are algorithmically based, where we can actually compute the right answer. And we now have enough artificial intelligence technology and enough scale and so forth that we can, for example, deliver you — literally compute the right answer.
Anything sound familiar there? Google has built an empire by “polluting” its search results with ads. Its defenses may seem impenetrable, but it has one potential point of weakness: a competitor who’d be able to deliver users answers rather than links to websites that might have answers.
At 1 p.m. ET today, Microsoft is holding a press event at which it is expected to unveil a new version of its search engine, Bing, that incorporates ChatGPT, the fairly astonishing conversational, generative AI unveiled late last year. If a leaked version is to be believed, the new Bing is built around this promise: “Ask real questions. Get complete answers.” Along with traditional search results, you’ll also be able to chat with “your AI-powered answer engine.” The new Bing is part of Microsoft’s massive $10 billion investment into ChatGPT’s maker, OpenAI.
Google could see this coming, of course, so it tried to get ahead of the news yesterday by announcing its own AI-powered chatbot, Bard. It’s available to “trusted testers” now, becoming “more widely available to the public in the coming weeks.”
(Amusingly enough, even back in that 2011 interview, it was Bing that Mossberg argued was already ahead of Google in giving direct answers to search queries. Schmidt even agreed, “in some narrow cases.”)
This is all extraordinarily exciting stuff — the most important shift in consumer technology since the iPhone, I’d wager. In my nearly 30 years on the Internet, I’ve never been less confident predicting what it’ll all look like in a year or two. Will these new interfaces simply mean a modest improvement in 5% or 10% of our search requests? Or will AI become the dominant way we interact with information online? At the rate of improvement we’re seeing — “the scale of the largest AI computations is doubling every six months, far outpacing Moore’s Law” — putting any cap on the possibilities feels perilous.
But there’s a more narrow matter, of interest to the news business, that we can foresee. Right now, in lieu of those direct “answers,” Google sends a lot of traffic to news sites — more than any other external source by far. Newsrooms spend time and money figuring out a lot of those answers, and the reward they’ve traditionally reaped for them has been web traffic, monetized through ads.
But the more questions Google answers without a click, the less traffic those “answering” news sites will get. Less traffic means fewer ad impressions, which means lower revenue.
The kind of shift Schmidt is talking about — from “link-based” to “algorithmically based” — could have a big impact on publishers in the business of providing answers to searchers’ questions. And not just the Demand Medias of the world who are attached at the neck to search — traditional publishers too.
In 2011, these were the sort of questions that Google felt confident enough to answer without a link. They were all based on structured data, mostly hard numbers.
But even then, it was clear that their range would grow:
For now, Google’s ability to answer questions directly is bound by the sorts of things its algorithms can know. But they’ll get smarter — and Schmidt’s comments make clear it’s a strategic goal of the company to ensure they get smarter. So imagine a point in the near future where Google can deliver direct answers to questions like:What time is Modern Family on?
Who are the Republicans running for president?
What red blouses are on sale at Macy’s?
Who’s the backup left tackle for the New Orleans Saints?
Modern Family is long gone, but Google will tell you directly when Abbott Elementary is on. And it’s happy to let Macy’s buy some ad space to talk about their red blouses. But it’ll still rely on links for G.O.P. candidates and the Saints offensive line.
ChatGPT, in its current public form, isn’t connected to the open internet and is only trained on information up to 2021, so it isn’t great on current events. (A rival generative AI, from Anthropic, tried to tell me Terron Armstead plays tackle for the Saints. Alas, if only.) But both Google and Microsoft have said their bots will be able to draw on the entire web, in real time — so their results will likely be strong.
Let’s go back to 2011 for a minute. Things like TV schedules, team rosters, and announced presidential candidates are still structured data — the sort of thing that didn’t seem too far out of reach even then. But what about the next level of difficulty?
And imagine, further down the line, that Google’s AI improves to the point where it can answer questions like these:Did Dallas city council approve that zoning change last night?
Was the stimulus package too small to be effective?
What’s going to replace the Space Shuttle program?
Which is Terrence Malick’s best movie?
Did Osama bin Laden really use his wife as a human shield?
Is the new My Morning Jacket album any good?
Some of those are complex enough that Google probably wouldn’t be able to deliver a single definitive answer, the way it can with a database of census data. But it’s not hard to imagine it could provide a Metacritic-like look at the summary critical opinion of the My Morning Jacket record, or an analysis of customer reviews of Malick’s DVDs at Amazon. It could dip into the growing sea of public data about government activity to tell you what happened at city council (and maybe figure out which parts of the agenda were important, based on news stories, community bloggers, and social media traffic). It could gather up articles from high-trust news and government sources on NASA and algorithmically combine them into just as much info as the searcher wants. It’s a shift in the focus of Google’s judgment; websites shift from competitors to be ranked against each other to data sources to be diced and analyzed to figure out an answer.
I asked each of those questions to ChatGPT this morning. It…did pretty well. It nailed these two:
What’s going to replace the Space Shuttle program?
The Space Shuttle program was officially retired in 2011 and was replaced by the Commercial Crew Program. The Commercial Crew Program is a NASA initiative aimed at outsourcing the design, development, and operation of spacecraft for human space transportation to low Earth orbit. The program was created to provide reliable and safe access to the International Space Station (ISS) for both NASA astronauts and international partners.The two companies that were selected to participate in the program are Space and Boeing. SpaceX’s spacecraft, the Crew Dragon, has already completed multiple successful missions to the IS, and Boeing’s spacecraft, the CST-100 Starliner, is currently in the testing and certification phase
These new spacecraft are designed to be more cost-effective and efficient compared to the Space Shuttle, and they are expected to provide reliable and safe transportation for astronauts to the ISS for many years to come.
Did Osama bin Laden really use his wife as a human shield?
Yes, reports indicate that Osama bin Laden used his wife as a human shield during the raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan on May 2, 2011. According to the official account of the raid, bin Laden’s wife, Amal al-Sadah, was shot in the leg as she was used as a shield by bin Laden in an attempt to protect himself. The incident was reported by various news sources, including US government officials, and was later confirmed in the investigation of the raid.
It was useful, if equivocal, on these:
Which is Terrence Malick’s best movie?
Terrence Malick is a highly regarded filmmaker, and his works are often considered some of the best in the industry. It is subjective to name one specific film as his “best”, as it depends on personal taste and interpretation. However, some of his most highly acclaimed works include:• “The Tree of Life” (2011)
• “Badlands” (1973)
• “Days of Heaven” (1978)These films are often cited as some of the best in his filmography, and they showcase his unique style, beautiful cinematography, and themes of nature and spirituality.
Was the stimulus package too small to be effective?
The effectiveness of the stimulus package is a matter of debate and depends on various economic, political, and social factors. Some economists argue that the stimulus package was too small to have a significant impact on the economy, as it did not provide enough support to those who were most affected by the economic downturn.Others argue that the size of the stimulus package was appropriate given the constraints of the political and economic environment at the time. They argue that the package provided enough support to help stabilize the economy and prevent it from collapsing further, while also providing funding for important infrastructure projects and programs that helped create jobs and stimulate growth.
Ultimately, the effectiveness of the stimulus package is difficult to quantify and measure, and it depends on a variety of factors and perspectives.
ChatGPT didn’t know what the “latest” My Morning Jacket album is, so I asked it specifically about their most accurate release as of 2011:
Is the album “Circuital” by My Morning Jacket good?
“Circuital” is the sixth studio album by My Morning Jacket, released in 2011. The album received generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised its mix of eclectic musical styles and the band’s ability to craft compelling and atmospheric songs.Many fans of the band consider “Circuital” to be one of the strongest albums in their discography, and it is often praised for its cohesive sound and memorable songs. The album was also well-received commercially, reaching the top 30 on the Billboard 200 chart and earning positive reviews from many well-known music publications.
Ultimately, whether or not “Circuital” is a good album is subjective and depends on personal taste. If you are a fan of My Morning Jacket’s music or enjoy a mix of rock, alternative, and psychedelic influences, it is worth checking out.
(“Cohesive sound and memorable songs” is some pretty non-specific praise, it should be noted, and the album actually hit No. 5 on the Billboard 200, not “just” the top 30.)
The last question — “Did Dallas city council approve that zoning change last night?” — is one ChatGPT can’t currently answer, being informationally stuck in 2021. But again, Google and Microsoft won’t have that problem. And for local news organizations, tech companies’ ability to get questions like that right will be critical. Local information, gathered by local reporters, can be exceptionally valuable in the right contexts. Will search engines be able to ingest that knowledge and chat it back out to users without sending even a pageview the publisher’s way?
The debates (and lawsuits) around the ethics of AI-generated images ask similar questions. (Though training an image AI to learn the style of an artist seems distinct from training a chat AI to take specific facts from a publication. “How do you write a city council story?” ≠ “What did city council do last night?”) Does this sort of amalgamation differ, legally or ethically, from the indexing of content that search engines have always done? As publishers around the world have sought hush money, er, I mean compensation from Google, the company’s reply has been simple: But we send you all this traffic! Does the conversation change as that becomes decreasingly true? Or will Google, seeing that risk, decide to focus on the more strategic universe of non-local information, reasoning the legal and PR risks are lower when you’re summarizing Wikipedia than The Hometown Gazette?Who knows? Not me. 2011 me didn’t know either:
These things aren’t right around the corner — they quickly get to be really complicated AI problems. But they all point to the fact that Google is working hard to reduce the number of times searchers need to leave google.com to get answers to their questions. For all the times that Google has said it’s not in the content business, it’s not hard to imagine a future where its mission to “organize the world’s information” goes way beyond spidering and linking and into algorithmically processing for answers instead of PageRank.That — much more than news organizations’ previous complaints about Google — could put real pressure on the business models of news websites. It challenges ideas of how to navigate the link economy and what concepts like search engine optimization, fair use, and aggregation mean. And it sure looked like Schmidt pointed the way last night.
A dozen years later, all these questions are becoming more than rhetorical.
Feb 8 (Reuters) - Russia's foreign ministry said on Wednesday the United States had questions to answer over its role in explosions on the undersea Nord Stream gas pipelines last year.
Commenting on a report published earlier on Wednesday that said the United States was involved in the explosions, Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called on the White House to comment on the "facts" that had been presented.
Reuters was unable to verify the report, published by U.S. investigative journalist Seymour Hersh on his blog, alleging U.S. involvement in the explosions.
The White House said on Wednesday that Hersh's account was "utterly false and complete fiction".
Moscow, without providing evidence, has repeatedly said the West was behind the explosions affecting the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines last September - multibillion-dollar infrastructure projects that carried Russian gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea.
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Western officials have denied those accusations.
"The White House must now comment on all these facts," Zakharova said in a post on her Telegram page where she summarised Hersh's main claims regarding the alleged U.S. involvement.
Investigators from Sweden and Denmark - in whose exclusive economic zones the explosions occurred - have said the ruptures were a result of sabotage, but have not said who they believe was responsible.
Russia said the countries "have something to hide" and are purposefully blocking Russia out from the investigation.
Construction of Nord Stream 2, designed to double the amount of gas Russia could send directly to Germany under the sea, was completed in September 2021, but was never put into operation after Berlin shelved certification just days before Moscow sent its troops into Ukraine in February.
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(This story has been corrected to say that blasts were inside exclusive economic zones of Sweden and Denmark, not in their "territorial waters")
Reporting by Jake Cordell Editing by Gareth Jones
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(Reuters) - Russia's foreign ministry said on Wednesday the United States had questions to answer over its role in explosions on the undersea Nord Stream gas pipelines last year.
Commenting on a report published earlier on Wednesday that said the United States was involved in the explosions, Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called on the White House to comment on the "facts" that had been presented.
Reuters was unable to verify the report, published by U.S. investigative journalist Seymour Hersh on his blog, alleging U.S. involvement in the explosions.
The White House said on Wednesday that Hersh's account was "utterly false and complete fiction".
Moscow, without providing evidence, has repeatedly said the West was behind the explosions affecting the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines last September - multibillion-dollar infrastructure projects that carried Russian gas to Germany under the Baltic Sea.
Western officials have denied those accusations.
"The White House must now comment on all these facts," Zakharova said in a post on her Telegram page where she summarised Hersh's main claims regarding the alleged U.S. involvement.
Investigators from Sweden and Denmark - in whose exclusive economic zones the explosions occurred - have said the ruptures were a result of sabotage, but have not said who they believe was responsible.
Russia said the countries "have something to hide" and are purposefully blocking Russia out from the investigation.
Construction of Nord Stream 2, designed to double the amount of gas Russia could send directly to Germany under the sea, was completed in September 2021, but was never put into operation after Berlin shelved certification just days before Moscow sent its troops into Ukraine in February.
(This story has been corrected to say that blasts were inside exclusive economic zones of Sweden and Denmark, not in their "territorial waters")
(Reporting by Jake Cordell; Editing by Gareth Jones)
