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Lisa monaco, to fyodor prosecutors. we must enhance and centralize our internal tracking investigations and prosecutions of ransomware groups, and infrastructure networks that allows the threats to pursue. persists heres my question, ransom is a classic collective action problem, right? so if a loved one of yours were kidnapped, speaking for myself, i think anyone would do anything possible to get them back. if it meant paying a lot of money, i would do it. and the problem with that is that the ...

This way. >> he knows how destructive and harmful the ransomware and cyberattacks can be, so destructive to the countries critical infrastructure, even harm people. now we hear the biden administration talking about this -- this threat in terms of this being a -- an urgent national security priority, especially following the two major ransomware attacks against jbs foods and colonial pipeline. and they are now calling on companies across the country to harden their own cyber-defenses as they say...

One of the things that the biden administration has talked about in terms of fending this off is putting more resources in terms of analyzing the cryptocurrency chain and so that they can better track these criminals and have a sense of what theyre up to. two other tactics that theyre highlighting is, they are -- they say, going after, disrupting the ransomware networks and, you know, the government has significant capabilities to do that. the problem is oftentimes its a situation of whack-a-mol...

We must enhance and centralize our internal tracking and investigations and prosecutions of ransomware groups. heres my question -- ransom is a classic collective action problem. so if a loved one of yours were kidnapped, i speaking for myself, could do anything possible to get them back, and if that meant paying a lot of money, i would do it. the problem with that is the individual incentive to pay the ransom, but if everyone does that you would incentivize more kidnappings. seems like theres a...

Its not they have pronounceable americanized names. 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 attributed the jbs attack to r evil and sodinokibi and are working diligently to bring the threat actors to justice. we continue to focus our efforts on imposing risks and consequences and holding the responsible cyber actors ac...

All. >> last question for you, david. president biden and vladimir putin are due to have a summit in two weeks, and were seeing a lot of provocative behavior by russia leading up to that summit. were even seeing the russian government bragging about the fact that theyre planning on being even more provocative leading up to that summit. do you think its possible that these attacks are hitting closer and closer to the heart of american critical infrastructure, hitting fuel supply lines, hitting fo...

Major companies that are technological backbones of our company. also going after federal government agencies, our energy grid. russias government has been very overt on these cyber fronts. weve never seen these ransomware groups bite off so big of an attack against critical infrastructure before. they have primarily been focused on companies where they can make $3 to $5 million. never the critical infrastructure that weve seen before so they have been very brazen with what theyre doing and its ...

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Critical infrastructure like we have in the past months. lets be clear, russia is also been involved, the russian government, fsb, its been very involved in sort of major prolific attacks against solar winds which ultimately impacted microsoft, in, vma, or cisco, all the major companies that are technological backbones of our country. also, going after federal government agencies, there are energy grids. russias government has been very overt on the several fronts. but weve never seen these rans...

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...