Biden Administration Targets Crypto Pipelines in Fight Against Ransomware Attacks September 22, 2021 By Kartikay Mehrotra and Jennifer Jacobs The Biden administration plans a fresh campaign against ransomware attacks through sanctions to cut off criminals’ cryptocurrency pipelines, and it...
Biden Administration Plans More Ransom Payment Tracing in Fight Against Attacks July 16, 2021 By Jennifer Jacobs and Billy House The Biden administration intends to crack down on the use of cryptocurrencies in ransomware attacks through more rigorous tracing of...
Biden Under Pressure to Counter Growing Ransomware Threat July 8, 2021 By William Turton, Jennifer Jacobs and Jordan Fabian President Joe Biden on Wednesday discussed the possibility of responding to a spate of ransomware attacks against U.S. entities that...
Russia-Linked Hacking Group Is Behind JBS Cyber Attack: Sources June 2, 2021 By Jennifer Jacobs, Kartikay Mehrotra and William Turton A notorious Russia-linked hacking group is behind the cyber attack against JBS SA, according to four people familiar with the...
Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5 Million in Ransom: Bloomberg May 13, 2021 By William Turton, Michael Riley and Jennifer Jacobs Colonial Pipeline Co. paid nearly $5 million to Eastern European hackers on Friday, contradicting reports earlier this week that the...
Biden Signs Executive Order on Cyber Information Sharing, Safety Practices May 13, 2021 By Alyza Sebenius and Jennifer Jacobs President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed an executive order intended to strengthen U.S. cybersecurity by improving information sharing about attacks...
Trump Visits Storm-Damaged Panhandle, Pledges Financial Aid May 9, 2019 By Jennifer Jacobs, Alyza Sebenius and Christopher Flavelle President Donald Trump blamed congressional Democrats for a lagging federal response to the hurricane-ravaged Florida Panhandle on Wednesday, declaring that...
FEMA Chief Long to Leave Agency February 13, 2019 By Jennifer Jacobs and Christopher Flavelle Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Brock Long is leaving the agency he led through a record period of natural disasters...
Will U.S. Go or Will It Stay in Paris Climate Accord? Trump Gets Conflicting Advice June 1, 2017 By Jennifer A. Dlouhy and Jennifer Jacobs President Donald Trump is poised to announce plans to withdraw the U.S. from the landmark Paris climate accord on Thursday,...
White House, Republicans Weigh Benefits Changes to Health Care Bill March 23, 2017 By Billy House, Jennifer Jacobs and Anna Edney The White House is talking with House conservatives about last-minute changes to the embattled GOP health-care bill aimed at wooing...