By Vladimir Soldatkin and Humeyra Pamuk
"We agreed to task experts in both our countries to work on specific understandings about what is off-limits," Biden said following a lakeside summit with Putin in Geneva. "We'll find out whether we have a cybersecurity arrangement that begins to bring some order." The threat of destructive hacks aimed at critical infrastructure, a staple of disaster movies where renegade hackers trigger blackouts and mayhem, have long worried experts.
In all those cases, the hackers involved are accused by the United States of either working directly for the Russian government or from Russian territory.Russian officials have repeatedly denied carrying out or tolerating cyberattacks, and Putin on Wednesday made no concessions on the issue. "We certainly see where the attacks are coming from. We see that this work is coordinated from U.S. cyberspace," Putin said."There's no indication at all that he actually went along with it," said Keir Giles, a Russia expert with the London-based Chatham House think tank.