White House Ransomware Summit Excludes Russia, China

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The White House is launching today a two-day virtual meeting on ransomware that includes ministers and senior officials from over 30 countries and the European Union to accelerate cooperation to counter ransomware.

The White House said that “participants will cover everything from efforts to improve national resilience to experiences addressing the misuse of virtual currency to launder ransom payments, our respective efforts to disrupt and prosecute ransomware criminals, and diplomacy as a tool to counter ransomware.”

The meeting notably does not include Russia, which the Biden White House has accused of doing little to police the ransomware gangs within its country’s borders. Nor will China be in attendance. The 30 countries attending include Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Estonia, the EU, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Lithuania, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Poland, the Republic of Korea, Romani…