Geneva, June 17 -- : US President Joe Biden on Wednesday (local time) said he told Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during their Geneva summit that "certain critical infrastructure should be off limits to cyberattack" and expressed optimism that latter would not seek to escalate the tensions between the two nations.

"I think that the last thing he (Putin) wants now is a Cold War," Biden told the media after the meeting, adding that he during the talks had stressed that "certain critical infrastructure should be off limits to attack -- period -- by cyber or any other means."

The remark comes after a number of attacks on Western targets, including last month's ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline, which shut down a major US fuel pipelin...