Putin says Russian authorities had nothing to do with pipeline cyberattack during address to the national media. FOX Business’ Connell McShane with the latest.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday denied that Russian officials were behind the multitude of cyberattacks that have struck U.S. corporations in recent months.
Cyber experts have linked several threat groups that recently conducted attacks on the Colonial Pipeline, meat producer JBS, Microsoft and other U.S. organizations and agencies to Russian hackers, though exact identities and origins remain unclear.
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"As for cybersecurity, we reached an agreement chiefly that we will start negotiations on that. I think that's extremely important," Putin said after his highly anticipated summit with President Biden on Wednesday.
He went on to claim that "most of the cyberattacks in the world are carried out" by the U.S., Canada, "Latin American countries" and the U.K. before Russia, citing "American sources."
"Where's Russia on the list?" he asked. "… Russia is not on the list."
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