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What a second Trump term means for the future of ransomware


The U.S. government has made big strides over the past four years in the ongoing fight against the “scourge of ransomware,” as President Joe Biden

“It is hard to say what will happen with policy and regulation in the future as there are many layers, and players, involved in change,” Marcin Kleczynski, the chief executive at antimalware giant Malwarebytes, told TechCrunch. Lisa Sotto, partner at American law firm Hunton Andrews Kurth, told TechCrunch that deregulation will be an overarching theme of the Trump administration. With a scaled back focus on regulation, a second Trump term could pick up where it left off with offensive cyberattacks and employ a more aggressive approach in a bid to tackle the ransomware problem.

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