The White House has united dozens of nations and representatives from big tech companies for a two-day summit aimed at figuring out how to tackle the global ransomware problem.
“When you look at government networks, as we know — Costa Rica; Montenegro; Bank of Zambia; the city of Palermo, Italy, — this is really a global problem. So, we’re seeing the pace and the sophistication of the ransomware attacks increasing faster than our resilience and disruption efforts,” said a senior administration official, noting there has been a wide range of attacks on the healthcare sector from the Irish National Health Service to US hospitals.
