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Attacks after a recent wave of hacks crippled several major companies. u.s. officials tell nbc news that the white house is looking to treat these attacks as national security threats, using intelligence agencies to spy on hacking groups and considering cyber responses of their own. nbc news national correspondent miguel almaguer reports. >> reporter: the controversial move comes after an urgent white house warning that no company or corporation is safe. in the face of damaging cyber attacks, a ...

Intelligence agencies to spy on hacking groups and considering cyberresponses of their own. national correspondent miguel almagure reports. >> reporter: no company or corporation is safe in the face of damaging cyberattacks a new white house memo reads the number of ransomware incidents have increased and they should convene their leadership teams to discuss the ransomware threat and ensure you have the ability to quickly restore operations. >> these criminal groups are able to make a profit off...

At a confluence of factors. you have the consolidation in these industries, which makes single players like jbs an enormous target for ransomware, and you have the affordability of ransomware to criminal gangs. they can find somebody they know to be wealthy, doesnt have a big i.t. infrastructure, and hit them very hard. in the end, the reverberations go on and on, even here to a ranch deep in rural california. >> clint, you have jbs now, colonial a couple weeks ago, the massachusetts steam ship ...

At least 10 hacking groups using Microsoft software flaw FILE PHOTO: A Microsoft logo is seen in Los Angeles, California U.S. November 7, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson (REUTERS)Premium . Updated: 11 Mar 2021, 10:34 AM IST Reuters The breadth of the exploitation adds to the urgency of the warnings being issued by authorities in the United States and Europe about the weaknesses found in Microsofts Exchange software Share Via Read Full Story WASHINGTON : At least 10 different hacking groups are ...

Story highlights A hacking group from China is suspected of attacking the airline industry over the last few years to obtain data of passengers. Reportedly, this was done to track the movement of people of interest to China A hacking group from China is suspected of attacking the airline industry over the last few years to obtain data of passengers. Reportedly, this was done to track the movement of people of interest to China. Zdnet reported that the hackers have been attacking the data under ...

Eric: beyond that theres a new major threat they say that seems to be spreaded rapidly and thats ransom ware attacks, most recently targeting 20,000, kara is back, associate fellow at the national security program at the center for new american security. the numbers are staggering, millions in bitcoin to hackers that hack into towns and cities, why are they getting hacked and why cant we stop this? >> so one of the primary reasons why they are getting hacked is because these state and local muni...

Administration is going to continue to act decisively to protect americas interest, american jobs and american security. >> reporter: now, the speech comes amid reports, dana, that amazon and apple network servers have been compromised by chinese spy microchips. other reports warning of attacks by beijing linked hacking groups. another story you may have heard about. the u.s. navy proposing to have an increased show of force to counter act chinese agreg in the south china sea. the idea, of cours...

Anything about these hacking groups, but look at that. from the u.s. we hear there was not any meddling until the elections. who are they hearing that from? the highest levels of the u.s. government are saying the russians did hack into the 2016 elections. the only person whos waffling on that, wolf, is the president. >> including that interview with reuters yesterday when he said if, if the russians did it. once again raising a serious question. alex, good report. thank you very much. the pre...

Access to their foreign actor, director wray saying its no longer these nation states. meaning try to get our secrets, our military information. but now, you have them working with hacking groups. in these various third party people that can go in and try to get access to these systems and its a real collaborative group thats trying to be set up. most of the u.s. is critical frugs and when it comes to cyber its all private. our cell phone companies. the its private. that might be a good thing, r...

Everybody has to read it. about how the obama administration basically just sat on this issue of russian meddling until oops. donald trump won. >> long before the 2016 election, russia was engaged in widespread cyber aggression against the united states. the president at the time, barack obama, and all of his intelligence chiefs, john brenan at the cia, james clapper at national intelligence, james comey and his predecessor robert mueller, at the fbi, they were all well aware that russian-state-...