FBI Director Christopher Wray stated the firm is examining about 100 different types of ransomware, much of which trace back to hackers in Russia, and compared the present wave of cyberattacks with the challenge presented by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
” There are a lot of parallels, theres a lot of importance, and a lot of focus by us on disruption and avoidance,” Mr. Wray said in an interview on Thursday. “Theres a shared duty, not just throughout government firms however throughout the personal sector and even the average American.”
Mr. Wrays comments– among his very first openly because 2 recent ransomware attacks grasped the U.S. meat and oil-and-gas industries– come as senior Biden administration officials have characterized ransomware as an urgent national-security risk and said they are looking at ways to disrupt the criminal community that supports the thriving industry. Each of the 100 different harmful software application variants are accountable for multiple ransomware attacks in the U.S., Mr. Wray stated.