Governments Sleeping on Hacking Threats

From ransoms to all the election news, where are world governments on the very real threats posed by hacking and the Internet generally?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-ransomware-attacks-are-forcing-big-payments-from-cities-counties-11564078222

Even here the election news seems to define the threat as a risk of altered votes when the risk is altered reality. It seems governments don’t see the real risk presented by the Internet and social media and in the case of the linked story, hacking