The White House on Sunday walked back comments from President Biden that he’d be “open” to exchanging cybercriminals with Russia.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told press aboard Air Force One that Biden was not talking about “exchanges or swaps” when he seemed receptive to Vladimir Putin’s offer that the Kremlin would extradite cybercriminals if the US would respond in kind.“There’s no cybercriminals who have committed crimes in Russia he’s looking at, thinking, ‘I’m going to exchange them,’ ” Sullivan said.
“What he was saying was that if Vladimir Putin wants to come and say ‘I’m prepared to make sure cybercriminals are held accountable,’ Joe Biden is perfectly willing to show up and say ‘cybercriminals will be held accountable in America’ – because they already are,” Sullivan said. Putin’s offer came during an appearance on state-run TV Sunday ahead of a planned talk between the two leaders in Geneva, Switzerland that is expected to be focused on ransomware attacks.
“The question of cyber security is one of the most important at the moment because turning all kinds of systems off can lead to really difficult consequences.”
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