
The White House National Security Council this week is hosting more than 30 countries in a virtual meeting aimed at “accelerating cooperation” to combat ransomware worldwide, part of the Biden administration’s four-part strategy to contend with cyber-attacks that are frequently carried out by some countries and criminal organizations to profit from shutting down an entity’s information systems until a ransom is paid to allow network operations to resume. The two days of virtual meetings that run Wednesday and Thursday are…