(Alexander Natruskin/Reuters)The Biden administration is also reportedly mulling cyberattacks of its own against Russians, enraged at ransomware attacks from that country. WATCH | The rising cost of a ransomware attack:The rising cost of a ransomware attack The National 2:09 Organizations hit by a ransomware attack face a plethora of encrypted data and a hefty price tag to retrieve it. Suspected Russian hackers dumped online the NSA's stockpile of zero-days, which have since been used around the world in countless criminal attacks. As U.S.-Russia tensions escalated after the invasion of Ukraine in 2014, American officials found Russian hackers in numerous federal networks, says Michael Daniel. At the very moment she sat for an interview with CBC News last week, she saw a headline pop up about a ransomware attack on the Nantucket Ferry .

Source: CBC News June 05, 2021 07:52 UTC