President Joe Biden warned on July 27 that the United States could respond with a “real shooting war” against countries that decided to launch cyberattacks against America. Biden made the remarks during a speech at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), which provides oversight to the U.S. intelligence community. “If we end up in a war, a real shooting war with a major power, it’s going to be as a consequence of a cyber breach of great consequence,” Biden said. The cyber breach including ransomware attacks “increasingly are able to cause damage and disruption to the real world,” Biden added. Ransomware operations involve malicious actors encrypting victims’ data and making it inaccessible. The actors then demand ransom in exchange for decryption. Georgia-based Colonial Pipeline and meat processing company JBS are recent victims of ransomware attacks that brought their operations to a halt. The FBI blamed the attack …