A White House spokesperson said on Tuesday that while the U.S. intelligence community has not yet fully determined whether Russia is behind the recent ransomware attack targeting Miami-based software firm Kaseya, the Biden administration believes Russian authorities “have a responsibility” to crack down on cybercriminals operating from within their country and, if Moscow doesn’t, Washington will “take action.” “As the president made clear to President Putin when they met, if the Russian government cannot or will not take action against criminal actors residing in Russia, we will take action or reserve the right to take action on our own,” White House press secretary Jen Psaki said at a briefing. The Russia-based REvil ransomware gang, also known as Sodnokibi, has taken credit for the attack on Miami-based software firm Kaseya, in a message posted on their dark web blog, according to The Record. The group said it had infected over a million systems …
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