The Biden admin. is moving to treat ransomware attacks as a national security threat, using intelligence agencies to spy on foreign criminals and contemplating offensive cyber operations against hackers inside Russia, U.S. officials tell NBCNews.
President Joe Biden speaks in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., on June 2, 2021.The Biden administration is moving to treat ransomware attacks as a national security threat, using intelligence agencies to spy on foreign criminals and contemplating offensive cyber operations against hackers inside Russia, U.S. officials and other sources familiar with the matter tell NBC News.
“Sometime at the end of last year, everyone decided that this had risen to the level of a threat to national security,” said James Lewis, a cyber expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies who consults frequently with government officials.“While we won’t comment on specific planned or ongoing operations, we provide options through the Department of Defense to the president,” the cyber command spokesperson said.
Neuberger also said the U.S. government was seeking to “disrupt” ransomware networks, though she didn’t say how.In a typical ransomware attack, hackers break into a corporate network and lock up data, demanding payment in order to release it. Some also threaten to post business secrets on the internet if payment is not made.
If he doesn’t, Biden will have some decisions to make, current and former officials say, including whether to order offensive action by U.S. Cyber Command, the military hackers based at Fort Meade who wield cyber weapons that can take down networks and turn computers into bricks.
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