Ransomware Attack Now Targeting Congress While Biden Is Still Not Putting the Blame on Russia
By Nick Arama | Jun 08, 2021 5:00 PM ET
We’ve seen a lot of ransomware cyberattacks in the past month.
It’s not coincidental that this in the lead up before the meeting between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin in Geneva, which is next week. That’s not just my opinion that there’s a relation. As we reported, that’s the opinion of experts looking at the situation who believe this is Russia testing Biden.
We’ve seen oil, the meat supply, even transportation to Martha’s Vineyard hit. Gas and meat prices were driven up by the attacks.
But, so far, the Biden team has refused to tag Russia with the actions. Biden himself said he didn’t believe that Putin was testing him.
But now there are reports of another attack that we should have heard about before and it surely sounds like an effort to make a statement to the Congress.
At least 60 members of Congress on both sides of the aisle have been unable to access constituent data for weeks because of a ransomware attack on the company, iConstituent, a tech company that provides outreach services for the members.
The purpose seems to be to be annoying; I’m not sure if such a company would even particularly have deep pockets, at least on the level of some of the other recent targets of cyberattack.
It’s not clear who’s behind the Congressional attack yet.
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