Washington wants to unite the international response against ransomware
Jake Sullivan, Joe Biden's national security adviser on August 23, 2021 at the White House.
AP - Susan Walsh
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A two-day virtual ransomware-themed summit hosted by the United States opened on Wednesday, October 13.
About thirty countries have shared their concerns about these cyber attacks from abroad.
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With our correspondent in Miami,
David Thomson
About thirty countries were present at this summit with about as many stories of raçongiciel to tell.
Whether it is against an Israeli hospital, a South African port or American meat companies, each time the modus operandi is the same: hackers break into an organization's network, manage to paralyze its activity by encrypting its own data before demanding a ransom to decrypt it.
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No country can solve this problem alone,
" said Jake Sullivan, the White House's national security adviser, who wishes to combine international efforts to better counter this growing threat.
In the spring, the United States experienced gasoline shortages after
an attack on a fuel distributor
that was forced to pay $ 5 million to hackers suspected of operating from Russia.
Russia, which was not invited to this conference, has already been warned by Washington.
When they met in July, Joe Biden had already firmly asked Vladimir Putin to put an end to these attacks.
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