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Jesse: we remember what happened with the pipeline. its ridiculous. another russia cyber attack. microsoft accounts got targeted. and new york city subways got hit last month. here is inside information former nsa hack every day individual kennedy who worked as a white hat hacker. explain what kind of hacker you were. >> somebody that is hack for good. we are experts that both work for the government to go after other countries that are adversarial to us. and we help the large corporations acros...

Criminal gang revil, really by the fbi for the attack against meat producer jbs, earned at least 100 and $23 million in ransom last year. tonight, a revealing glimpse of the online negotiations between hackers and victims. companies and charities, large and small. in one exchange, a company pleads, my bosses have told me they can offer $730,000. they said if we had to pay any higher we would not be able to pay our employees. the hackers respond, provide supporting information that your company i...

Says revil blamed by the fbi, for jbs, earned $123 million in ransom last year. tonight a revealing glimpse of the online negotiations between hackers and victim, companies and charities, large and small. in one exchange, a company pleads, my bosses have told me they can offer $730,000, they said if we had to pay any higher, we would not be able to pay our employees. the hackers response, provide supporting information that your company is in a financial hole and we will review your price, but a...

The employee but all of our systems are down. and another charity pleads if you can desist and allow us to continue our work. the hacker agrees only after receiving proof of the charitys work. average initial ransom demand, $5 million. two-third pay the ransom. >> this is a team of people working together. they have a financial department, they have negotiation department, they have a customer service group. >> reporter: but should the u.s. retaliate against the russian government? most warn tha...

The hacker agrees only after receiving proof of the charitys work. the average initial ransom demand, $5 million 2/3 of victims pay the ransom to get their computers back >> this is not just somebody wearing a hoodie in moscow this is a team of people working together theyve got a financial department theyve got negotiation department theyve got a customer service group. >> reporter: but should the u.s. retaliate against the the russian government most experts warn that would only lead to a dang...

The pandemic slammed businesses, including health care systems. On top of the stress of COVID-19, they also saw more cybersecurity attacks.

Cyberhygiene. apply your security patches. back up your systems. the reason its so important to apply security patches is because security researchers have identified vulnerabilities, basically identified in your house lets say an open window, unlocked door and basically saying a private patch is closing up the avenues where the attacker can get in. also if you back up your systems if you get hit with the ransomware attack very likely you can reconstitute the network without paying the ransom. i...

Operates. colonial pipeline actually paid the ransom $4.4 million so the hacker got the money. the ceo of colonial explained why he paid up. >> the conversations went like this. >> do you pay the ransom or not? the initial thought is you dont want to pay the criminals. but our job, and our duty to the public, it was the right decision to make for the country. >> i understand where hes coming from. what terrifies me was there was no other way out. there was not somebody who could come in undo wha...

President biden will get the chance to confront putin in a summit later this month. the white house says president biden will address the increase cyber attacks imminenting from russia. >> jessica, thank you very much. i want to go to david kennedy, hes a former hacker for the marine core. let me just ask you, fbi director wray compared these attacks to the challenges of 9/11. he did not do so, so lightly. your job is to look at vulnerabilities to see how at risk we are. how at risk is america? ...

This as scary as it seems? is this something that actually has been going along like this all the time and were just paying a little bit of attention to it now because these happen to be a couple of high-profile attacks? or are these really high-profile attacks? is it true that for whatever reason right now these russian criminal gangs operating from the safe harbor of the russian government, letting them operate here, are these russian attackers hitting targets in our country that are way close...