Biden had come to much the same conclusion. Even as Colonial Pipeline was struggling to bring its systems back online and get fuel flowing, he told his advisors to think about how to use the incident as leverage to force Putin to crack down on the near-constant stream of ransomware attacks on the United States. While there was no evidence Putin had had anything to do with the disruption, his government harbored DarkSide and other ransomware gangs: tolerating their attacks as long as they were focused on the West and not on Russia or its immediate neighbors and, occasionally, tapping their
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