Christian Vasquez reports:
The FBI is seeing progress in the fight against ransomware gangs after conducting more than 30 disruption operations this year in which officials targeted the infrastructure used by those groups, one of the bureau’s top cybersecurity officials said Wednesday.
Cynthia Kaiser, deputy assistant director of the FBI’s cyber division, said during CyberScoop’s CyberTalks event that disruption operations against ransomware gangs have in some cases stopped gangs from further targeting the U.S.. Ransomware gangs often operate in safe harbor countries like Russia, where there is little hope for extraction to the U.S.
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