{"id":550413,"date":"2021-06-03T07:20:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T11:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=550413"},"modified":"2021-06-03T07:20:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T11:20:43","slug":"top-cybersecurity-official-has-bad-news-about-ransomware-attacks-thatve-seemingly-worsened-under-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-cybersecurity-official-has-bad-news-about-ransomware-attacks-thatve-seemingly-worsened-under-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Cybersecurity Official Has Bad News About Ransomware Attacks That\u2019ve Seemingly Worsened Under Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-cybersecurity-official-has-bad-news-about-ransomware-attacks-thatve-seemingly-worsened-under-biden%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=550413&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Biden1-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A top U.S. official is warning that recent major ransomware attacks against the United States under President Joe Biden are likely to continue as the attackers become \u201cmore brazen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The remarks from Chris Butera, head of Threat Hunting for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), come after the oil and meat industries have recently been hit hard by the cyberattacks that officials believe are coming from Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ransomware actors have become more brazen,\u201d Butera said. \u201cThey\u2019ve started to exfiltrate data and try to extort payments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Butera said he expects to \u201ccontinue to see\u201d the ransomware attacks happen and he urged companies not to pay the ransoms, which is the U.S. government\u2019s official position.<\/p>\n<p>Major ransomware attacks have occurred recently against companies in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/colonial-pipeline-ransomware-attack\/\">oil and gas industry<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/5\/20\/22446388\/cna-insurance-ransomware-attack-40-million-dollar-ransom\">insurance industry<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcboston.com\/news\/local\/mass-steamship-authority-delayed-due-to-cyber-attack\/2395477\/\">transportation industry<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/cybersecurity\/556265-major-meat-producer-jbs-usa-hit-by-cyberattack\">meat industry<\/a>. The ransomware attacks followed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/01\/business\/meat-plant-cyberattack-jbs.html\">massive cyberattack<\/a> against the U.S., again believed to be from Russia, that infiltrated more than 250 federal agencies.<\/p>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki blamed the companies themselves for being victims of the attacks, saying they have a responsibility to protect themselves. When a reporter asked her why these attacks were seemingly increasing under Biden, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-psaki-mocks-reporter-who-asks-why-russian-ransomware-attacks-increasing-under-biden\">mocked<\/a> the reporter by saying he should go ask the criminals in Russia. When Biden was asked if he would retaliate against Russia, he did not give a definitive answer and laughed when asked if Russian President Vladimir Putin was \u201ctesting\u201d him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.7777777777778\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">REPORTER: &#8220;Do you think Putin is testing you&#8221; after latest Russian ransomware attack?<\/p>\n<p>BIDEN SMIRKING: &#8220;No.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Xiid92stjF\">pic.twitter.com\/Xiid92stjF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Benny (@bennyjohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1400154062830571523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cU.S. policy needs to more directly engage with ransomware,\u201d Resident Fellow for the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Klon Kitchen told Fox News. \u201cWe need to change the political calculus of foreign governments who allow ransomware attackers to operate with impunity within their borders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s time for the United States to start putting heads on spikes when it comes to confronting and dismantling ransomware groups,\u201d Kitchen continued.\u00a0\u201cIf President Biden does not confront Vladimir Putin about the ransomware groups perpetrating from within Russia, he will be failing in his duty to protect the United States from these types of attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former CIA officer Bryan Dean Wright told The Daily Wire that Russia was launching these cyberattacks against the U.S. for a variety of reasons, but primarily to make life difficult for America.<\/p>\n<p>Wright\u2019s remarks to The Daily Wire come after Moscow threatened the U.S. on Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/moscow-to-biden-russia-to-send-a-number-of-uncomfortable-signals-to-u-s-in-coming-days\">saying<\/a>,\u00a0\u201cThe Americans must assume that a number of signals from Moscow \u2026 will be uncomfortable for them, including in the coming days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPutin uses proxy forces \u2014 like Russian crime syndicates or armed mercenaries \u2014 to engage in low grade, asymmetrical warfare,\u201d Dean said. \u201cSome say this gives him plausible deniability but that\u2019s only marginally true. He knows we know, and he doesn\u2019t care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dean listed some of the following reasons on why the Russians engage in asymmetrical warfare against the U.S.:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>We make life difficult for the Russians, namely in our past expansion of NATO into their back yard. We made certain promises about Ukraine \u2014 basically that we\u2019d leave it alone \u2014 and we didn\u2019t. The Russians haven\u2019t forgotten.<\/li>\n<li>Many older Russians \u2014 including and especially Putin &#038; his Govt bureaucrats \u2014 still hate America for winning the Cold War. Watching us suffer or poking us in the eye makes them feel good.<\/li>\n<li>Relatedly, the Russians want us to be at each other\u2019s throats. Creating or encouraging conflict between Americans \u2014 and especially directing it at certain political leaders \u2014 builds resentments that can be leveraged for covert influence campaigns designed to weaken our bonds. That\u2019s helpful for times of conventional warfare or during moments of delicate foreign policy engagements.\u00a0 Or they do it just to watch us suffer.<\/li>\n<li>There\u2019s an unwieldy mix between corrupt Russian politicians, oligarchs, and the asymmetrical actors like cyber syndicates. They make money off each other. So long as they don\u2019t make too big of a mess globally \u2014 US gas lines eventually come back, we quickly get our meat packing plants running again \u2014 then it\u2019s a low drag way of greasing lots of palms.<\/li>\n<li>Putin needs a foil. We\u2019re it. For domestic audiences, he needs to convince his people that their old enemy remains just as dangerous in order to keep \/ firm up his electoral hold. For foreign audiences, it helps cement his aura of the man who will stand up to Washington. He leverages that to expand Russian influence abroad.<\/li>\n<li>Putin generally hates our foreign policy. He thinks we speak in lofty rhetoric, roll in with tanks \/ diplomatic regime change, and roll back out when the job gets messy, leaving a disaster. So wherever we go, he\u2019s there to gum up the works.<\/li>\n<li>Tactically, when these asymmetrical actors probe us for weaknesses or hack our systems, the Russians learn our countermeasures and policy making processes \/ responses. In turn, that helps them refine how to better attack or disable us if the day ever comes for bigger, more overt or conventional warfare. Said differently, there\u2019s a clear military calculus to hacking our infrastructure.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A top U.S. official is warning that recent major ransomware attacks against the United States under President Joe Biden are likely to continue as the attackers become \u201cmore brazen.\u201dThe remarks &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279016,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Biden1-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Top Cybersecurity Official Has Bad News About Ransomware Attacks That\u2019ve Seemingly Worsened Under Biden","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Biden1-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Top Cybersecurity Official Has Bad News About Ransomware Attacks That\u2019ve Seemingly Worsened Under Biden","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}