Digital pandemic: Ransomware attacks surge

The ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline, which supplies 45% of gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel to the east coast, was only one of hundreds. There were 200 million ransomware attacks last year in the United States, up 62%, causing billions of dollars in losses.

On Monday, President Joe Biden promised to go after the criminals, identified by the FBI as the Russia-based group DarkSide, while noting he had no evidence Russian President Vladimir Putin had knowledge of the attack.