US authorities revealed a decrease in the number of large cyber attacks using extortion viruses against key infrastructure facilities. This was stated by the US President’s Assistant on the National Security Jake Sullivan in an interview with Foreign Policy.
According to him, such a decrease in hacker activity is observed in the past few months against the background of the negotiations of US President Joe Bayden and the Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Sullivan also reminded that several people accused of a large-scale cyber attack on American companies were detained in Russia.
On January 14, the Moscow Tver Court arrested two participants in the hacker group Revil, which was engaged in the spread of extortion viruses and accused of a large-scale kiberatak on American companies. According to the representative of the US administration, one of the detained hackers was involved in the hacking American pipeline company Colonial Pipeline.