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Group behind the attacks of more than 360 targets in the u.s. alone hand more than 350 companies around the world alone over the fourth of july weekend has suddenly disappeared from the internet. we dont know who or what was behind the sites vanishing but it comes days after president biden spoke with russian president vladimir putin on the phone and warned him if he did not take action against the ransomware groups that were based in russia, the u.s. would act. joining me now from moscow is nbc...

Now, sounds simple. in fact, a little bit complicated because its the nature of cyber that you can launch attacks from servers all around the world. in fact, some of the russian attacks we have seen have been launched from servers here in the united states. they just rented space on amazon or go daddy. so its going to be a complex issue, and its made all the harder by the fact that these ransomware groups, by the administrations own admission, are private criminal groups. its more like dealing w...

Biden says the two world leaders established a more direct line of communication. he reiterated that there will be consequence force the recent attacks. what exactly does that mean? how does the biden administration plan to deal with russias growing aggression? here with me is white house and national security correspondent for "the new york times" david sanger. david, thank you for joining us this morning. you reported that bidens warning on friday was his starkest yet. administration officials...

Geneva. it was prompted by another ransomware attack and led to another warning to president putin from president biden. president biden delivering a new warning to russian president vladimir putin tonight. >> the united states expects when ransomware operations are coming from his soil, even though its not sponsored by the state, we expect them to act. >> reporter: during an hour-long call, biden urged putin to take action to disrupt ransomware groups operating out of russia. >> it went well. i...

In 2016, election influence was the number one threat. today thats been far surpassed by ransomware groups. whats interesting about these groups and what president biden is talking about here is the compliity of the russian government. this is not a group associated with an intelligence agency. this is a crime group. an organized crime group. similar to organized crime groups here in the united states. so a lot of these nation states are allowing these organized crime groups to operate with impu...

Nature, but beginning to bleed american companies, the government and so forth are coming out of russia and there are two different kinds, there are the ones being respond erred by the state, putin, intelligence services and there are the ransomware groups that are mostly criminal. the question is can you find a way to bring both of those under control and i have my doubts. >> the u.s. is much more vulnerable to cyber warfare and you make this point and ive heard it from u.s. officials, intellig...

For cyber, it becomes so much harder because while putin knows that his own intelligence services are launching attacks and that ransomware groups are launching attacks from russian territory, its to his advantage to pretend to know nothing about this because the weapon itself is deniable. and thats why it makeses it so hard to do what youd expect a summit like this to do. bebegin to lay out the parameters of what arms control might look like or at least to use bidens term, some guardrails about...

Nine days after she went missing. her family believe she was abducted, as they say wandering off was not something their daughter would have done. youre watching bbc news. lets talk a little more now about that summit in geneva — wherejoe biden and vladimir putin will discuss issues. amongst them, the issue of ransomware, as researchers say there is extreme compelling evidence that many of the largest cyber attacks originate in or around russia. 0ur cyber reporterjoe tidy is here. welcome. tel...

Is you cant see them being developed, you cant verify whether theyve been dismantled. and its very difficult to prove at least in a public understandable way where they were launched from. now we dont have any doubt that the svr, the most sophisticated of the russian intelligence agencies, was behind the solar winds with attack which was last -- discovered last december against american federal agencies, against corporations. the ransomware groups are harder to pin down, but we know many of them...

Both at the g7, and on that one-on-one summit with russian president vladimir putin in geneva, president biden will make it clear they have to take action to crack down on these ransomware groups and tell putin that they are destabling to the u.s./russia relationship. biden has repeatedly said he wants a stable and predictable relationship with russia. bore rizzs, amara. >> alex, thank you for that. russian president vladimir putin is responding to the accusations, in his words, theyre hilario...