Putin Is Crushing Biden’s Room to Negotiate on Ransomware

Photo: Vladimir Putin. Photo credit: Alexei Druzhinin / Getty Images. Article by Justin Sherman. Wired – August 6, 2021.

At the end of June, just before the White House scrambled to respond to another ransomware attack from Russia, Moscow presented a new international cyber treaty in the United Nations. Moscow has tightened its grip on the internet domestically for years, and has recently pushed for a sovereign internet. While the Russian government’s internet strategy and policies are often misunderstood in the West—based on the false assumption that Putin’s hand moves everything in Russia—this focus on state dominance has remained crystal clear. […]

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