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Can Biden do anything to stop ransomware attacks? Vox.com 2 hrs ago Jen Kirby © Peter Klaunzer/Keystone via Getty Images US President Joe Biden, second from left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet during the US-Russia summit on June 16, 2021, at Villa La Grange in Geneva, Switzerland. First there was Colonial Pipeline. Then the world’s largest meat supplier. And this weekend, a ransomware group called REvil struck another business, demanding $70 million in payment to unlock the systems of software company Kaseya. By attacking Kaseya, these hackers exploited all ...

White House racing to finalize strategy to deter ransomware attacks By: CNN By Natasha Bertrand, CNN (CNN) -- The White House is racing to finalize a government-wide strategy on how to respond to ransomware attacks that will deter companies from paying out ransoms to cybercriminals as the Biden administration grapples with yet another major attack on a US firm by criminal actors believed to be based in Russia. For months, the National Security Council has been studying how to stop debilitating attacks on critical infrastructure entities and weighi...

Swiss supermarket chain offline as REvil campaign targets Kaseya VSA SHARE A chain of supermarkets in Switzerland is one of possibly thousands of potential victims in a new REvil ransomware gang attack that has targeted companies using information technology management software from Kaseya Ltd. The new REvil attack came ahead of the Independence Day holiday in the U.S. today. According to Bleeping Computer, the attack targeted managed service providers using Kaseya VSA in a supply-chain attack. Kaseya VSA is a cloud-based MSP platform that allows providers to automa...

Kaspersky Lab in 2014. (Alexxsun, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons) Roughly three in four individuals assert that companies should not submit to the demands of ransomware gangs in the event are infected, says one survey report. Yet roughly three in four parents say that school districts should pay up if they are impacted by an attack. So which is it? It could very well be both, as respondents’ sentiments likely vary depending on what they personally have at stake, how important they view the security of their data, how hypothetical the at...

At this month's summit, US President Joe Biden warned his counterpart Vladimir Putin of reprisals against 'persistent malicious cyber-attacks'. But it will take more than posturing to end the stand-off.