

White House spokesperson John Kirby told reporters on Tuesday that Washington was waiting for ongoing investigations in Germany, Sweden and Denmark - all in the Baltic region - to conclude, "and only then should we be looking at what follow-on actions might or may not be appropriate".


officials, the New York Times said there was no evidence that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy or his top aides were involved in the operation or that the perpetrators were acting at the behest of any Ukrainian government officials. Neither side has provided evidence.Ĭiting U.S. Security Council to independently investigate. Moscow has blamed Ukraine's Western supporters and has called on the U.N. and NATO have called the attacks, which occurred seven months into Russia's invasion of Ukraine and destroyed three of the four pipelines running under the Baltic Sea, "an act of sabotage". officials indicates that a pro-Ukrainian group sabotaged the Nord Stream pipelines that carried natural gas from Russia to Europe, but they have found no evidence of Kyiv government involvement in the September 2022 attack, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. Confirm it, Ransomware Shield adds the app to your Exceptions list itself and there's nothing else to do.Ĭontrolled Folders could be better, then, but it did its core job, keeping us safe from a threat that the antivirus engine missed.WASHINGTON/KYIV, March 7 (Reuters) - New intelligence reviewed by U.S.

Controlled Folders simply blocks everything it doesn't recognize, and previously we've found some legitimate programs refused to run until we manually added them to an Exceptions list.Īvast's Ransomware Shield is smarter, more like a firewall when it detects an unauthorized access to a folder, it alerts you, but also asks if the process is legitimate. This time, Defender displayed an alert when our ransomware tried to access the folder, and it wasn't able to encrypt any documents. We turned Controlled Folders on, added our test folder to the list, and ran the ransomware simulator again. Fortunately, Defender has a second layer of protection in its Controlled Folders feature (Security Center > Virus & Threat Protection > Manage Ransomware Protection.) Turn this on and it automatically blocks unauthorized apps from accessing key document folders (Documents, Pictures, Videos, Music, more) and you can easily add more.
