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Claims Journal<\/a> | By Eric Tucker and Alan Suderman |\u00a0December 20, 2021 | Ransomware Attacks | Start A Quote Today!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WASHINGTON (AP)\u2013In the months since President Joe Biden warned Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin that he needed to crack down on ransomware gangs in his country, there hasn\u2019t been a massive attack like the one last May that resulted in gasoline shortages. But that\u2019s small comfort to Ken Trzaska.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trzaska is president of Lewis & Clark Community College, a small Illinois school that canceled classes for days after a ransomware attack last month that knocked critical computer systems offline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat first day,\u201d Trzaska said, \u201cI think all of us were probably up 20-plus hours, just moving through the process, trying to get our arms around what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even if the United States isn\u2019t currently enduring large-scale, front-page ransomware attacks on par with ones earlier this year that targeted the global meat supply or kept millions of Americans from filling their gas tanks, the problem hasn\u2019t disappeared. In fact, the attack on Trzaska\u2019s college was part of a barrage of lower-profile episodes that have upended the businesses, governments, schools and hospitals that were hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The college\u2019s ordeal reflects the challenges the Biden administration faces in stamping out the threat _ and its uneven progress in doing so since ransomware became an urgent national security problem last spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. officials have recaptured some ransom payments, cracked down on abuses of cryptocurrency, and made some arrests. Spy agencies have launched attacks against ransomware groups and the U.S. has pushed federal, state and local governments, as well as private industries, to boost protections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet six months after Biden\u2019s admonitions to Putin, it\u2019s hard to tell whether hackers have eased up because of U.S. pressure. Smaller-scale attacks continue, with ransomware criminals continuing to operate from Russia with seeming impunity. Administration officials have given conflicting assessments about whether Russia\u2019s behavior has changed since last summer. Further complicating matters, ransomware is no longer at the top of the U.S.-Russia agenda, with Washington focused on dissuading Putin from invading Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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