Biden presses Russia to stop harboring ransomware gangs

Biden presses Russia to stop harboring ransomware gangs

Press Secretary Jen Psaki takes questions from reporters during a press briefing Monday, Feb. 1, 2021, in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House. Psaki told reporters that Biden would bring up Moscow’s inaction against its homegrown ransomware industry during an upcoming summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin (Official White House Photo by Chandler West)

At the White House press briefing Wednesday, Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters that President Biden would bring up Moscow’s inaction against its homegrown ransomware industry during an upcoming summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Elsewhere, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in an on-air interview that Russia needed to take responsibility for the criminals within its borders.


It is the most coordinated and forceful message to come from the White House about Russia’s inability or unwillingness to police rampant cybercrime originating from its shores.


“There are lots of other things going on in the world right now. We have COVID, and ships burning off of Sri Lanka; so [for ransomware] to even get into the talking points suggests to me that there’s a real rec ..

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