Amid a spate of recent high-profile, costly ransomware attacks, the White House is under increased pressure to respond, leading to a high-level interagency meeting on Wednesday morning.
WASHINGTON —
“It is something that from day one [the president] has made a priority and has asked his team to focus on where we can have an impact, how we can better work with the private sector and what we can do across the federal government to help address and reduce ransomware attacks on our critical infrastructure but also on a range of entities in the United States,” Psaki said on Tuesday.
In recent days there have been increasing calls for the White House to address the threat quickly to help businesses defend against the onslaught of ransomware attacks. While Biden told reporters on Tuesday that the government was still determining the origin of the Kaseya ransomware attack, the claim of responsibility from REvil has prompted some lawmakers and cybersecurity experts to call on the president to respond forcefully.