Moving U.S. energy supplies into Eastern Europe is one of the more powerful ways to contain Russian influence, the U.S. energy secretary said. Addressing questions from Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., on Russian actions, Perry said during testimony before the Senate Armed Services committee that he agreed that Russian cyber attacks on the U.S. Blumenthal, were “an act of war” on the United States. The U.S. Treasury Department revealed last week that Russian government actors targeted “multiple U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, including the energy, nuclear, commercial facilities, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors” with cyberattacks at least since March 2016. A ransomware cyberattack from the so-called Petya or NotPetya bug targeted thousands of government and private corporate servers across the […]