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According to a Senate staffer who spoke candidly on conditions of anonymity, many federal agencies have taken various defensive and offensive actions through a yet-to-be-named task force, Politico says.
Countries working to combat ransom payments made through cryptocurrencies are also developing procedures to block those payments, as well as working with allies overseas to do so, an aide said. He added that the task force can launch cyberattacks on ransomware operators to combat them.
Yesterday, Anne Neuberger, the deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technologies, gave members of Congress a 35-minute briefing on the upcoming executive order. The announcement that a task force has been established to combat ransomware operators comes at the same time when lawmakers and cyber experts are calling on President Joe Biden to do more in res…
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