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Statements to investors claiming the stock trades were in compliance with company insider trading policy, ms. james office says now to the court those statements were false and misleading. kodak is denying this. they say attorney general tish james is wrong on the facts. kodak and the attorney generals office are not just interpreting the same facts differently both groups are outright saying the other is lying. this is the sort of thing that will have a resolution because it looks like it is go...

Youre looking at businesses that have been around for 100, 200 years and now theyre completely shut down. they cant operate, they cant pay checks, they cant export goods, they cant manufacture products, theyre completely shut down. the only recourse they have is to pay these ransomware groups. one executive said i literally had to go underneath the shower and just sit there because i felt so dirty for paying this group for the ransoms but its the only way that our business could actually operate...

Everything, all because shes vaccinated and their names were entered into that drawing in the vax-a-million ohio drawing. ohio is the state that started the ball rolling with offering these totally over-the-top prizes as incentives for people to get the vaccine. it has proven to be a success. ohio leading the way on this. they seriously boosted their own vaccine uptake numbers, particularly in the age groups they were targeting. now states all over the country are doing similar giveaways and lot...

Could? also, is there any evidence that the united states government has the capacity, the offensive capacity to brush these groups back? to shut them down, to dismantle them, to rob them of their ill-gotten gains? what does the fbi mean when they say they are continuing to focus their efforts on imposing risk and consequences. imposing risk and consequences. what does that mean in fbi speak when were talking about this kind of attack on the united states? and, you know, bottom line, is this as ...

There are cases where weve worked very closely with a number of different countries. most recently there was a very large organized crime ransomware group which werent located in russia, they were located in a few different countries. law enforcement in those regions in conjunction with law enforcement in the united states led raids that actually busted up this specific group and theyre no longer operating anymore. the problem is as soon as this group went dark, four other ransomware groups took...

To note is these groups operate with complete impunity inside the russian government. the russian government may not know exactly which targets theyre going after but they have no recourse for going after u.s.-based targets as long as they dont target russian influences or russian government entities. they can essentially work, you know, causing as much damage as possible. revil more specifically nets over $100 million a year from ransomware groups. darkside very similar to that figure as well. ...

General leticia james who is now aggressively pursuing a case against the company for having used the trump administrations cronyism, catastrophic covid response as an opportunity for what looks like blatant, illegal, inside trading. her office is seeking a court order to force the kodak ceo and general counsel to testify publicly about the matter. her office says kodaks statements to investors claiming the stock trades were in compliance with company insider trading policy, ms. james office say...

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 are not likely to have their head turned on this, but if they did, would they have the power to control these groups or shut them down or divert them in some way? alternatively, does the united stat...

Then knocks at your door and says, all right, you want to negotiate? but thats exactly whats happening. some of these ransomware groups actually want to have good customer service. now, i cant recommend that you pay $300 to a criminal. you have to decide what your data is worth. do you have it backed up somewhere? is there something compromising on that data on your computer that you dont want people seeing that you want to get back? but at the end of the day, these groups want to have a good re...