Biden announced a proposal to Putin to protect 16 sectors from cyber attacks

Paccording to him, the parties agreed to involve experts to discuss issues of protection against hacker attacks. In particular, at the meeting, Biden recalled the attack on the Colonial Pipeline, which was forced to suspend work

 Biden announced a proposal to Putin to protect 16 sectors from cyber attacks

Joe Biden

US President Joe Biden said that during the talks with President Vladimir Putin, he discussed cybersecurity issues. According to him, they agreed that this topic will be discussed by experts. Biden’s press conference is broadcast by RBC.

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As Biden said, he offered Putin a list of 16 infrastructure sectors against which cyber attacks would be prohibited.According to the American president, he touched on the topic, for example, the attack on the American pipeline. “I asked him what he would do in my place. He nodded and showed that he understood what was being said, ” Biden said.

We are talking about a hacker attack on the Colonial Pipeline, which occurred on May 6. As a result, the company was forced to stop the operation of the pipeline.

It was alleged that during the cyberattack, the attackers stole a large amount of data, as well as blocked the company’s networks. They threatened to leak the company’s internal information to the Internet and leave the system blocked if Colonial Pipeline did not pay the ransom. Later, Bloomberg reported that the American company transferred about $5 million in cryptocurrency to hackers.

A number of American media reported that the hackers “originated from Russia”, but at the same time clarified that there is no evidence that the cybercriminals were supervised by the Russian authorities.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said during a press conference that, according to American sources, most of the cyber attacks in the world come from the United States. “Russia does not appear in the list of countries from whose territory or from whose cyberspace the greatest number of cyber attacks of various kinds are carried out. Last year, Russia sent 45 requests about cyber attacks to the relevant US structures, and in the first half of this year-35. We still haven’t received any answers. This suggests that we have something to work with, ” Putin stressed.

Источник rbc.ru

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