US Attorney General Warns Ransomware Getting Worse and Worse
Voice of America
10 Jun 2021, 10:05 GMT+10
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland warned Wednesday that ransom-motivated cyberattacks are getting worse and worse, echoing other top Biden administration officials who have sounded the alarm about the problem in recent weeks. We have to do everything we possibly can here, Garland told lawmakers. This is a very, very serious threat.
The attorney general s warning during a Senate hearing on the Justice Department s fiscal 2022 budget request followed a pair of high-profile ransomware attacks over the past month that have rattled the U.S. national security and law enforcement establishment and sparked calls for beefed-up cyber defenses.
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U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland warned Wednesday that ransom-motivated cyberattacks are “getting worse and worse,” echoing other top Biden administration officials who have sounded the alarm about the problem in recent weeks.
“We have to do everything we possibly can here,” Garland told lawmakers. “This is a very, very serious threat.”
The attorney general’s warning during a Senate hearing on the Justice Department’s fiscal 2022 budget request followed a pair of high-profile ransomware attacks over the past month that have rattled the U.S. national security and law enforcement establishment and sparked calls for beefed-up cyber defenses.
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland warned Wednesday that ransom-motivated cyberattacks are “getting worse and worse,” echoing other top Biden administration officials who have sounded the alarm about the problem in recent weeks. “We have to do everything we possibly can here,” Garland told lawmakers. “This is a very, very serious threat.”
U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland warned Wednesday that ransom-motivated cyberattacks are “getting worse and worse,” echoing other top Biden administration officials who have sounded the alarm about the problem in recent weeks.
“We have to do everything we possibly can here,” Garland told lawmakers. “This is a very, very serious threat.”
Meatpacker JBS USA announced it paid the equivalent of $11 million in ransom in response to a May cyber-attack that impacted its operations in North America and Australia.