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Senior Biden administration officials met Silicon Valley executives on Monday to ask for more help in tackling hackers and ransomware attacks.
It comes amid fresh warnings that Russian state hackers, who caused chaos with the SolarWinds attack, have not eased up in their campaign of cyberespionage.
And it emerged that global ransomware attacks increased by 151 percent in the first half of 2021 compared with last year, according to Canada's signals intelligence agency.
Against that backdrop, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and other officials met executives from 13 companies, including Google, at the Four Seasons hotel in Palo Alto, California according to Politico.
'This is about taking a spirit of partnership and moving into actual operational collaboration,' Mayorkas told the news outlet.
He said the aim was to 'increase the cyber hygiene not only of the government' but also companies with a wide range of expertise and resources.
Participants included networking vendor Juniper Networks and security firm Mandiant.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and other officials reportedly met executives from 13 companies, including Google, at the Four Seasons hotel in Palo Alto, to discuss how to better tackle the threat from hackers