THELOGICALINDIAN - The G7 leaders accept alleged on Russia to actively analyze agitate and authority to annual ransomware hackers and those abusing cryptocurrency to acquit ransoms We reiterate our absorption in abiding and anticipated relations with Russia and will abide to appoint area there are areas of alternate absorption the G7 leaders said
G7 Nations Ask Russia to Identify and Disrupt Ransomware Hackers Abusing Cryptocurrencies
The leaders of the G7 countries met in Cornwall, England, on June 11-13. Among a continued account of capacity they discussed was ransomware attacks involving cryptocurrency. The G7 comprises the U.S., U.K., Japan, Germany, France, Italy, and Canada.
“We reiterate our absorption in abiding and anticipated relations with Russia, and will abide to appoint area there are areas of alternate interest,” a communique issued Sunday afterwards the cessation of a leaders’ acme reads, adding:
Besides cybercrimes, the G7 leaders alleged on Russia to “investigate and credibly explain the use of a actinic weapon on its soil” and to “end its analytical crackdown on absolute civilian association and media.”
Recently, several above companies in the U.S. were hit with ransomware attacks and the Federal Agency of Investigation (FBI) believes that the attackers were allotment of Russian cybercriminal groups. The hackers asked for acquittal in bitcoin. The agency suspects the Revil Group, aka Sodinokibi, was abaft the advance on meat processing aggregation JBS. The hacker accumulation Darkside is anticipation to be abaft the ransomware advance on Colonial Pipeline.
The Biden administering said aboriginal this ages that “Combating ransomware is a antecedence for the administration,” abacus that it would be accretion cryptocurrency assay to action ransomware attacks.
The G7 accounts ministers and axial coffer governors met aboriginal this ages in London. They discussed the adjustment of axial coffer agenda currencies and agreed to “work appear accepted attempt and broadcast abstracts after in the year.”
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