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For your time. i really appreciate you being here. >> absolutely. thanks so much for having me on today. >> first let me ask you the embarrassing question about revil versus revil and the other russian origin word that the fbi is using to describe this group. am i making a hash of it or am i close? >> you did really good on it. most people say revil that we typically hear in the security industry. but any of them is fine. >> let me also just ask you sort of the first question that i teed up here...

Millions of dollars in flux into the russian government. and its good for business for russia its, bad for business in united states. its good for russia ultimately. there are cases where, you know, we worked closely with a number of different countries, most recently there was a very large organized crime ransomware group called mo-tech they werent located in, russia relocated different countries. and well enforcement of this country is in conjunction with u.s. law enforcement had rate that act...

Does the fbi do if you do call one of their field offices and tell them that youve been hit with a ransomware attack. it seems like theres no magic bullet from stopping these things from happening. according to the new york times tonight, quote revil is one of the most prolific of the 40 ransomware organizations that cybersecurity experts track. the group is among the dozens of ransomware groups that enjoy safe harbor in russia, where they are really arrested are extradited for their crimes. one...

If the russian government didnt want these ransomware groups to operate, they would not be operating, 100%. so it would require the russian government to take a different stance on these ransomware groups that are operating out of russia. lets just be frank. you have the top five ransomware groups are out of russia. theyre making hundreds of millions of dollars being influxed into the russian government and its good for business for russia, bad for business for the united states so its good for ...

Responsible cyber actors accountable. a cyberattack on one is an attack on us all. we encourage any entity who is the victim of a cyberattack to immediately notify the fbi through one of our 56 field offices. one question is, of course, what does the fbi do if you do call one of their field offices and tell them that youve been hit with a ransomware attack. it seems like theres no magic bullet from stopping these things from happening. according to "the new york times" tonight, revil is one of t...

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Another one million hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. heres the big piece to note. you mentioned why are we just talking about this now, has this been a problem for a long time? it really has, but the problem is that we continuously are paying these ransoms because theyre getting so good at what they do, going after our backups, also stealing our data, that they entrench themselves and these companies cannot recover. its a terrifying situation for these organizations because youre looki...

That group in retaliation for them taking out this big piece of critical american infrastructure. interestingly the biden administration denied that. they denied that u.s. cyber command or any other u.s. agency had anything to do with taking darkside offline after darkside mounted that attack. so, interesting open question. who did punch back at darkside after the colonial pipeline attack, taking their servers offline, taking away their ability to operate, to continue to effectuate these ransomw...

Security company called trusted sec. it trains u.s. military cyber protection teams. most crucially the thing tonight to know about him is his company has worked on multiple previous ransomware attacks carried out by this group revil that the fbi is now blaming for this major attack on the major u.s. supplier of beef, jbs. david kennedy joins us live. mr. kennedy, thank you so much for your time. i really appreciate you being here. >> absolutely. thanks so much for having me on today. >> first l...

Depending on you you pronounce it, revil, others say revil. the fbi in their statement of attribution used the team sodinokibi. theyre also using that name along with revil to describe the group. im sure im saying them wrong. theyre organized crime groups based in russia. anything that rhymes with evil by definition is pretty catchy when youre an organized crime group. heres what the fbi said tonight in their statement attributing blame for the jbs attack to these groups. it says we have attribu...