Biden: the U.S. can attack servers used by cybercriminals

U.S. President Joe Biden called it prudent for Washington to attack servers used by criminals using ransomware. The American leader made the statement before flying to Delaware. 

The White House press pool noted that Biden responded in the affirmative when asked by reporters whether it made sense to attack the servers in such cases.

The U.S. government later did not elaborate on whether U.S. President Joe Biden had already given instructions about the attacks.

"We're certainly not going to talk about it publicly - in terms of any specific actions that the president did or did not order. So I'm not going to talk in detail about these operational issues," said a high-ranking U.S. administration official.

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May saw a number of hacker attacks on various U.S. companies. Thus, hackers from DarkSide group broke into the systems of US pipeline company Colonial Pipeline, which was forced to shut down its pipeline network. US intelligence agencies said the hackers might be based in Russia or Eastern Europe. On May 31 there was an attack on computer networks of American division of meat processing company JBS. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin called the accusations that Russian hackers or Russia itself were allegedly behind the cyber attacks in the United States "farcical.

Today, President Biden spoke with President Putin about the ongoing ransomware attacks by criminals based in Russia. President Biden reiterated that the U.S. will take any necessary action to defend its people and its infrastructure in the face of this continuing challenge. pic.twitter.com/J3wlCCdn3a — The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 9, 2021