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Some House Homeland Democrats Frustrated Russian Not Cracking Down On Ransomware Actors

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, November 17th, 2021

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Some House Homeland Democrats Frustrated Russian Not Cracking Down On Ransomware Actors

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.).

Russia’s failure so far to stop criminal actors inside its country from conducting ransomware attacks against targets in the U.S. despite a warning from President Biden over the summer to knock it off or face consequences is troubling some Democrats in the House. “It seems to me that Russia has broken its promise to the United States,” Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.), vice chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said on Wednesday. The committee’s panels that oversee cybersecurity and intelligence…

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