During a press conference today, Director Christopher Wray discussed how the #FBI can impose risk and consequences on #cybercriminals when we work with our national and international partners and the private sector. go.usa.gov/xejcC 
Wray: Today's announcement ... demonstrates our resolve in pursuing criminal enterprises that use ransomware to threaten our critical infrastructure, our public health and safety, and our economic vitality.
Wray: We immediately strategized with our interagency #partners and reached a carefully considered decision about how to help the most companies possible, both by providing the key and by maximizing our government’s impact on our adversaries.
Wray: And we've got ways of disrupting those sheltering in places like Russia—as Polyanin discovered when he woke up and found $6.1 million he’d extorted from his victims missing.
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