{"id":554297,"date":"2021-06-06T10:21:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-06T14:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=554297"},"modified":"2021-06-06T10:50:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T14:50:21","slug":"blunt-urges-us-to-treat-russia-like-criminal-enterprise-for-cyberattacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/blunt-urges-us-to-treat-russia-like-criminal-enterprise-for-cyberattacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Blunt Urges US To Treat Russia Like &#039;Criminal Enterprise&#039; For Cyberattacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Fblunt-urges-us-to-treat-russia-like-criminal-enterprise-for-cyberattacks%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=554297&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\/GetFile-277.aspx\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Russia\u2019s should be treated like a \u201ccriminal enterprise\u201d by the United States as the nation tries to bolster its cybersecurity in the wake of massive attacks like the Colonial Pipeline breach, Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., said Sunday<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on NBC News\u2019 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/meet-the-press\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Meet The Press,&#8221;<\/a> Blunt also urged U.S. businesses to be more forthcoming after hacks like the Colonial breach, for which U.S. officials blamed the Russian ransomware ring, DarkSide.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u201c<\/b>You have\u00a0to treat Russia like virtually a\u00a0criminal enterprise.\u00a0They harbor criminals,\u201d Blunt said. \u201cThey don&#8217;t appreciate the rule\u00a0of law or any kind of level of\u00a0personal freedom, and I do think\u00a0we have to push back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Blunt also decried the lack of effort to make responsible nations accountable for cyberattacks.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u201c<\/b>When there&#8217;s no penalty, there&#8217;s no sanctions, [it\u2019s] hard to find who\u00a0is doing it,\u201d he said. \u201cEven when you can\u00a0find where they are, we haven&#8217;t\u00a0really effectively sanctioned\u00a0the countries that are\u00a0protecting this kind of\u00a0activity.\u00a0It has to stop.<b>\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Blunt took sharp aim at U.S. businesses for not coming forward with reports of hacking.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<b>\u201c<\/b>Nobody wanted to report they had\u00a0been hacked,\u201d he complained. \u201cThat was a fight we&#8217;ve been\u00a0having now for almost a decade,\u00a0and the only way you can begin\u00a0to get on top of this is to know\u00a0how pervasive the problem is,\u00a0try to develop a pattern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In particular, Blunt said cryptocurrency transfers have to be more transparent and \u201cnot allow that\u00a0to be just behind the scenes in\u00a0the entire system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a lot of cash\u00a0requirements in our country, but\u00a0we haven&#8217;t figured out in the\u00a0country or in the world how to\u00a0trace cryptocurrency,\u201d he argued.<b> <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201c<\/b>People almost always pay the\u00a0ransom.\u00a0There are very few consequences\u00a0and you can&#8217;t trace the<b> <\/b>ransom payment of choice now,\u201d he added. \u201cWe&#8217;ve got to do a better job<b>.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Related Stories:<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia\u2019s should be treated like a \u201ccriminal enterprise\u201d by the United States as the nation tries to bolster its cybersecurity in the wake of massive attacks like the Colonial Pipeline &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2279354,"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\/GetFile-277.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Blunt Urges US To Treat Russia Like &#039;Criminal Enterprise&#039; For Cyberattacks","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-554297","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\/GetFile-277.aspx","fifu_image_alt":"Blunt Urges US To Treat Russia Like &#039;Criminal Enterprise&#039; For Cyberattacks","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554297","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=554297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2279354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}