Biden bo na vrhu G-7 razpravljal o vprašanjih kripto in odkupne programske opreme

At yesterday’s White House press briefing, President Biden’s national varnost advisor, Jake Sullivan, stated that Biden is planning to discuss various crypto-related issues at the G-7.  

Sullivan ni le dejal, da bo Biden razpravljal o kripto vprašanjih, ampak je podvojil tudi izjavo, da mora biti preučevanje vloge kripto v kibernetskih napadih prednostna naloga. Sullivan meni, da morata Nato in katera koli država v G-7 preučiti ta vprašanja v pripravah na vrh prihodnjega meseca. 

Biden appears in line to be the first sitting president who will be forced to deal with a broad range of issues that pertain to cryptocurrency. The President has not only been focused on protecting from these ransomware attacks, but he has also announced a zatiranje utajevalcev via global data sharing.

Uprava je dala vedeti, da si dodatno prizadevajo zagotoviti, da trgovci na kripto trgu upoštevajo predpise in da se vse vrzeli v sistemu hitro popravijo. Številni Bidenovi imenovanci menijo o kriptovalutni pokrajini, pri čemer mnogi izražajo manj kot pozitivne občutke. 

Na včerajšnji tiskovni konferenci je Sullivan dejal, da je "Pomembno, da se spopademo s kripto valutnim izzivom, ki je bistvo izvajanja teh napadov ransomware. Ransomware je prednostna naloga nacionalne varnosti. " 

The ransomware issue has been a hot topic this week after the US Department of Justice (DOJ) recently seized over 2 milijonov dolarjev Bitcoin ransom. The seized ransom was forked over to a Russian hacker group named DarkSide after it was extorted from Colonial Pipeline, said the DOJ. 

This attack came during a spree of ransomware cyberattacks thought to originate from Russia that specifically set their sights on US-housed companies such as Colonial Pipeline. The attack had ramifications that extended far beyond crypto wallets because it resulted in gas shortages all up and down the Eastern Seaboard. 

Luckily for Colonial Pipeline, the FBI was able to regain control of most of the stolen 63.7 BTC and return it. The seizure took place in Northern California which allowed the FBI to access the private key to the hacker’s denarnica and regain the stolen funds. No official word on how the private key exactly was obtained. Special agent in charge Elvis Chan je rekel to “I don’t want to give up our trade craft in case we want to use this again for future endeavors.”

Čeprav Sullivan s toliko besedami ni obsodil kriptovalut, je izrazil svoje prepričanje, da so Bitcoin in druga digitalna sredstva običajno "jedro" teh hekerskih napadov. 

Biden ne bo čakal na G-7, da začne razpravljati o teh vprašanjih. Predsednik se bo kmalu sestal z Vladimirjem Putinom in nagovoril naj bi kibernetske napade iz Rusije. 

Po poročanju NBC News so skupine Ransomware samo v zadnjih petih mesecih izvedle več kot 1,000 napadov po vsem svetu.