US flag on the building of the US Embassy in Russia. File photoMOSCOW, May 18.The United States unilaterally ceased cooperation with Russia and refused to further discuss information security issues, Washington is not ready to work together to create a global cybersecurity system, said Oleg Khramov, Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. «The White House predictably unilaterally stopped cooperation with the Kremlin and refused to further discuss information security issues,» Khramov said at a meeting with foreign ambassadors in Moscow on Wednesday.Putin signed a decree on additional measures for Russia's cybersecurityAccording to Khramov, such steps by Washington were not a revelation for Moscow. «I repeat, the United States has once again shown that they cannot be trusted. And this applies not only to building bilateral relations, but also to working international platforms,» Khramov noted. «It is obvious that the United States is not ready to consolidate efforts to achieve the strategic goal of forming a global information security system and its legal basis in the form of an appropriate convention, which Russia and its allies are calling for,» he stressed. Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. Russia and the United States had experience of joint bilateral contacts on cybersecurity, Khramov noted.Biden again could not utter a word during his speech «The starting point for them was the agreement between the leaders of Russia and the United States during the summit in Geneva in June 2021 on the creation of a working group on security issues under the auspices of the security councils in the Kremlin-White House format in the field of information and communication technologies,” he said. “In practical terms, the “frozen” channels for exchanging technical information about computer incidents were restored, and the Russian-American Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters of 1999 actually “earned” through law enforcement agencies. In particular, the exchange of operational information on cybercrime has been established, the interaction between the Prosecutor General's Office of Russia and the US Department of Justice has intensified,» the deputy secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation added. According to him, under these conditions, the logical result of cooperation was the detention and liquidation of the international group of hackers REvil in Russia. 
Authorities were caught in Congress in laundering money through assistance to Ukraine «However, it should be noted that the American side did not bother to send documented information to Russian law enforcement agencies about the damage from cyber extortionists, which in Russia and not only is necessary to determine the degree of guilt of criminals and present them with appropriate accusations,» Khramov stressed. During the consultations, the Americans made attempts to «demonstrate strength» and a desire to emphasize their own dominance, he added. information infrastructure. But, as it is now clear, the Americans were pursuing other goals, far from achieving global cybersecurity goals. In the United States, the internal political struggle is intensifying, and the main external enemy, judging by their official documents, is Russia,» Khramov said.
The West was accused in China of hypocrisy because of the desire to cash in on Ukraine»Therefore, the leadership of the White House wanted to both show the effectiveness of the fight against cybercrime and not become the object of criticism of their internal opponents in connection with the restoration of dialogue with the «Russians», — said the deputy secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. According to Khramov, the words of American President Joe Biden are indicative, who earlier said that if the United States enters into a «real hot war with a major power», it will happen as a result of a cyber attack «with great consequences» and that the possibilities such attacks «grow exponentially.» But Russia proposes to go a different way, professes other approaches that are shared by our allies and closest partners. We are interested in equal and mutually beneficial cooperation with all states. We are ready for practical cooperation to jointly combat the growing threats in the information sphere,» he stressed.
