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Well all survive the fall and winter next year. so its interesting to watch that news develop today. it will be really interesting to see the -- particularly the volunteerism response but also the vaccine uptake response as so many private entities and public entities start pulling in the same direction to try to get those numbers up. tonight the fbi put out a statement formally attributing responsibility for the cyberattack that shut down one-fifth of all u.s. beef production in the last few da...

One-fifth of all u.s. beef production in the last few days. the largest meat packer in the world, the largest beef producer in this country is the gigantic company called jbs. they have got production facilities all over this country. all their production facilities were all shut down as of yesterday because of this ransomware attack that hit the company this weekend. the fbi now says tonight that that attack was perpetrated by an organized crime group based in, say it with me now, based in russ...

Youre looking at businesses that have been around for 100, 200 years and now theyre completely shut down. they cant operate, they cant pay checks, they cant export goods, they cant manufacture products, theyre completely shut down. the only recourse they have is to pay these ransomware groups. one executive said i literally had to go underneath the shower and just sit there because i felt so dirty for paying this group for the ransoms but its the only way that our business could actually operate...

Quote, assembly speaker voss said he was giving the investigators a broad mandate to spend about three months reviewing all tips and following up on the most credible ones. the officers have reportedly been given subpoena power. over the weekend the journal sentinel dug into the backgrounds of one of the three officers hired by the republican speaker. his experience in investigating voter fraud includes him writing a bogus report on alleged voter fraud in the 2004 election that a federal judge l...

There are cases where weve worked very closely with a number of different countries. most recently there was a very large organized crime ransomware group which werent located in russia, they were located in a few different countries. law enforcement in those regions in conjunction with law enforcement in the united states led raids that actually busted up this specific group and theyre no longer operating anymore. the problem is as soon as this group went dark, four other ransomware groups took...

After that pipeline attack was resolved, darkside announced it was shutting itself down. they said they had lost access to their servers and even lost access to their money online, implying maybe they even lost control of the ransom money that colonial pipeline paid them to get the attack stopped. that announcement from darkside that they were taking themselves out of the game, taking themselves down, that they had been dismantled by hostile forces, that led to speculation that the u.s. governme...

According to "the new york times" tonight, revil is one of the most prolific of the roughly 40 ransomware organizations that cybersecurity experts track. the group is among dozens of ransomware groups that enjoy safe harbor in russia, where they are rarely arrested or extradited for their crimes. one of its previous affiliates was a group called darkside which was responsible for the ransomware attack on colonial pipeline, the conduit for nearly half the gas and jet fuel to the east coast. after...