Russian President Vladimir Putin denied the Kremlin had a hand in cyberattacks on U.S. businesses and infrastructure ahead of his meeting with President Joe Biden. Biden is expected to press Putin on allegations that Moscow sanctioned cyberattacks against U.S. interests, including the SolarWinds breach that impacted some federal agencies. The FBI and White House officials have said Russian-based cybercriminal gangs have conducted ransomware attacks against several firms recently, including against the Colonial Pipeline system and major meat-producer JBS Foods. “We have been accused of all kinds of things,” Putin told NBC News in an interview released on Monday. “Election interference, cyberattacks, and so on and so forth. And not once, not once, not one time, did they bother to produce any kind of evidence or proof. Just unfounded accusations.” JBS last week announced it paid $11 million to a Russian-speaking hacking group after they targeted the firm’s systems, forcing a …
Putin Responds to Claims About Russia’s Involvement in Cyberattacks Ahead of Meeting With Biden
June 14, 2021
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