President Biden's new national cyber strategy is teeing up a more aggressive, military-involved fight against ransomware.
, officials hope the new designation will help them do more at a faster pace.
For instance, most of the recent ransomware takedowns have focused on infrastructure based in the U.S. or allied nations rather than proactive operations on servers in enemy countries. "It can take a year or even two to get to a point where U.S. law enforcement or global law enforcement are in a position to take that action," the senior administration official told Axios.The section of the national cybersecurity strategy that describes how exactly the administration wants to expand on its offensive cyber operations is vague — in part because many of these tools and operations are classified.
The strategy calls on the Pentagon to establish its own strategy to determine how the U.S. Cyber Command defends against both state and nonstate threats. And it calls for providing more resources to the FBI's National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force.Adding more muscle to the U.S. ransomware fight comes as dialogue between the U.S. and Russia, the biggest safe haven for ransomware gangs, has dissolved in the last year during the war in Ukraine.
"Since the criminal justice system isn't going to be able to, on its own, address this problem, we do need to look at other elements of national power to be going after the threat," a senior official told reporters before the strategy's release.If all goes as planned, expect to hear about more ransomware takedowns and arrests as the intelligence community gets more involved in the fight.
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