Biden To Putin: ‘Take Action To Disrupt Ransomware Groups’
‘The United States expects when a ransomware operation is coming from his [Putin’s] soil, even though it’s not sponsored by the state, we expect them to act if we give them enough information,’ says President Joe Biden. By Michael Novinson July 09, 2021, 06:07 PM EDT
President Joe Biden urged Russian leader Vladimir Putin to “take action to disrupt ransomware groups operating in Russia” following last week’s ransomware attack against Kaseya.
The dialogue between the two heads of state comes just days after the REvil gang – which operates largely out of Russia - pulled off the biggest ransomware attack in history, exploiting a vulnerability in Kaseya’s on-premise VSA remote monitoring and management tool to compromise nearly 60 MSPs and encrypt the data and demand ransom payments from up to 1,500 of their end user customers.