A former senior FBI cyber official is calling on the federal government to consider treating some ransomware attacks as acts of terrorism, arguing that cybercriminals who target hospitals and other critical infrastructure systems put lives at risk and should face appropriate consequences.
Testifying before the House Homeland Security Committee on Tuesday, Cynthia Kaiser urged lawmakers to also consider murder and manslaughter charges in cases where ransomware attacks cause death. Kaiser is now senior vice president of the Ransomware Research Center at Halycon, an anti-ransomware platform provider.
She spent two decades at the FBI, most recently as deputy assistant director in the FBI Cyber Division from 2022 to 2025.
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