In hour-long call, Biden discusses ransomware with Putin after another massive attack

In a nearly one-hour long call, President Joe Biden discussed ransomware attacks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

In a nearly one-hour call, President Joe Biden discussed ransomware attacks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, saying afterward he was "optimistic" about communications between the two countries going forward. The discussion, their first since meeting in Switzerland last month for a major summit, comes days after another massive ransomware attack affected as many as 1,500 businesses around the world, according to the software vendor that was impacted. "I made it very clear to him that the United States expects when a ransomware operation is coming from his -- even though it's not, not sponsored by the state -- we expect him to act if we give him enough information to act on who that is," Biden told reporters afterward. He added that there will still be U.S. consequences for such attacks, without providing details.