The White House advised American firms to be vigilant in the wake of recent hacks
Photo: Getty Images Days after a ransomware attack knocked close to a quarter of U.S. beef production offline, the Biden administration warned American executives to be vigilant about cybersecurity in an era of more frequent and more serious threats.
In a stew of NatSec lingo and corporate speak, deputy national security adviser Anne Neuberger wrote Thursday that business leaders “should immediately convene their leadership teams to discuss the ransomware threat” and to “review corporate security” and “business continuity plans” to ensure they can recover quickly following a hack.
President Biden also intends to mention the problem in his summit with Vladimir Putin on June 16. While many hackers targeting American firms are based out of Russia, it’s all but certain Putin will do nothing to shut them down, considering the antagonistic relationship between D.C. and Moscow and the close ties that Russian intelligence has held with independent hackers in the past. As the Brazilian beef company JBS S.A.
With the Biden administration returning to the combative approach to U.S.-Russian relations before Donald Trump, the hacking of private American interests has intensified this year. In May, one of the largest insurance firms in the United States, CNA Financial Corporation, paid hackers $40 million after it was locked out of its network for two weeks. The reported payout was significantly larger than the $4.
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