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If the russian government didnt want these ransomware groups to operate, they would not be operating, 100%. so it would require the russian government to take a different stance on these ransomware groups that are operating out of russia. lets just be frank. you have the top five ransomware groups are out of russia. theyre making hundreds of millions of dollars being influxed into the russian government and its good for business for russia, bad for business for the united states so its good for ...

Supply lines in part because thats in the russian governments interest in the terms of the way theyre trying to test and provoke president biden ahead of that meeting? >> thats a great point to bring up. weve never really seen ransomware groups target critical infrastructure like we have in the past several months. russia has also been involved, the russian government, the fsb, has been heavily involved in some major prolific attacks against solarwinds, all the major companies that are technolog...

Major distinctions and sanctions and going after the country, and making russia really focus primarily on targeting these organizations are making some sort of change. we just have not seen that historically former shuttle. >> last question for you, david. president biden and vladimir putin are due to have a summit in two weeks. and we are seeing a lot of provocative behavior by russia leading up to that summit. we are even seeing the russian government bragging about the fact that they are plan...

Darkside filled. its really a whack-a-mole problem with these different groups. theyre getting paid, so companies are paying the money for that, which is one problem. the second problem is that these groups can work with impunity without worrying about getting busted if theyre in russia. it will take some pretty major sanctions and making russia focused on targeting these organizations to make some sort of change and we have not seen that historically from russia at all. >> last question for you...

Groups. >> is this a problem that is more sophisticated and larger than law enforcement and government can handle? and i ask that sort of from two perspectives, number one, you talked about the impunity with which these groups operate in russia. if russia decided to change their mind about these groups for whatever reason, i understand that they have every incentive to let this go ahead and they are not likely to have their hand turned on this. but if they did, would they have the power to contr...

Another one million hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. heres the big piece to note. you mentioned why are we just talking about this now, has this been a problem for a long time? it really has, but the problem is that we continuously are paying these ransoms because theyre getting so good at what they do, going after our backups, also stealing our data, that they entrench themselves and these companies cannot recover. its a terrifying situation for these organizations because youre looki...

Teed up here tonight. i obviously am not a super tech-minded person. im a standard american old person who knows how to turn things on and off and thats it but i do recognize this is a pretty significant challenge for the country. as someone who understands this stuff pretty well, what else should we understand? let me give you the chance to correct anything i might have portrayed inaccurately in terms of how serious this is about these attacks? >> these groups operate with complete impunity ins...

What theyre doing is theyre investing into more research and more development so theyre getting more sophisticated which means they target larger organizations. we saw with colonial, with jbs, acor and health systems. were seeing breaches at a much larger scale because the sophistication of these groups have grown. >> is this a problem that is more sophisticated and larger than law enforcement and government can handle? and i ask that sort of from two perspectives. number one, you talked about t...

Depending on you you pronounce it, revil, others say revil. the fbi in their statement of attribution used the team sodinokibi. theyre also using that name along with revil to describe the group. im sure im saying them wrong. theyre organized crime groups based in russia. 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 attribu...

Secondly, given that so many of these attacks are originating in russia, should we really expect that these attacks could be shut down by the russian government if the russian government were so inclined? i am under no illusions that the russian government is so inclined, but if their head could be turned on this, if consequences or incentives could be changed for them, for the russian government so that they suddenly desired to stop these things, do we expect that they could? also, is there any...