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Securing of technology and individual privacy. so, i think its critical that people understand how far-reaching this risk really is. >> reporter: the justice department announced thursday it will implement practices used for terrorism cases, telling prosecutors to share more information and coordinate efforts on ransomware attacks which is when hackers take controlch a network and hold it hostage demanding money. the attacks and the amounts paid have skyrocketed. the justice department said rans...

For terrorism cases, telling prosecutors to share more information and coordinate efforts on ransomware attacks, which is when hackers take control of a network and hold it hostage, demanding money. the attacks and the amounts paid have skyrocketed. the justice department says ransom payments, often in cryptocurrency, last year went up 300%. the white house on thursday released a rare open letter pleading with companies to strengthen their online defenses, saying they cant fight the threat alone...

Today adding his voice to the alarm being sounded by the biden administration over the growing ransomware attacks here and around the world. there are a lot of parallels, wray told the "wall street journal." the scale of this problem is one that i think the country has to come to terms with. >> we are worries that some people will get hurt, especially when you consider all these incidents affecting health care. >> health care, schools and most recently the colonial pipeline and jbs foods, which ...

Journal." the scale of this problem is one that i think the country has to come to terms with. >> we are worried that some people will get hurt. especially considering all the incidents affecting health care. >> health care, schools and most recently the colonial pipeline and jbs foods, which is the biggest meat producer in the world. the two recent attacks caused gas shortages and beef plants to shut down. >> i think the country faces existential ricks to infrastructure, economic wellbeing, sec...

Colonial pipeline and jbs foods, which is the biggest meat producer in the world. those two recent attacks caused gas shortages, and beef plants to shut down. >> i think this is going to be an ongoing struggle. of increasing threat. increasing defenses. and to the extent, again, that this counterterrorism analogy works, that is another way in which this will be a long-term fight. >> reporter: the justice department announced, thursday, it will implement practices used for terrorism cases. tellin...

And heres abcs whit johnson now. >> reporter: tonight, after crippling cyber attacks on the u.s., affecting the u.s. meat supply, the gas supply and transportation, the justice department has now sent out notification to u.s. attorneys on how federal law enforcement should respond to these attacks. one justice department official telling reuters, u.s. authorities must investigate ransomware and digital extortion attacks with a similar priority level as terrorism cases. tonight, the white house o...

Seriously, we have this memo saying they are going to be treating ransom ware with the same process, the same protocols as terrorism cases. what that means, wolf, theres going to be more alerting within the justice department. if things happen in the country, u.s. attorneys will raise that with the justice department and here in washington, d.c. theres going to be more information sharing, more coordination and resources for these attacks. this is a recognition of this major issue that the count...

That dmv area. this is officers investigating crimes, building cases, looking at suspects that are not going to have data to do their job. investigating terrorism cases. human smuggling cases, child pornography cases and the like. and now as they do that, they are not going to have that dmv data to build their case and make their communities safer to ensure the safety of the officers themselves. its very troubling and similar to what we see with vaccination area policies around the country that ...

That the iranians can possibly get. its the greatest gift the russians can get. its a huge proceed to the isis campaign. its a disaster for american interests in the middle east. >> i will wonder this aloud. i know i have said it to you guys. i wonder where the advice he is getting that this is strategically brilliant, when you know pompeo and pence are headed over there to get turk why i to stand down, when you know that every republican that he apparently listens to once in a while is saying t...

Its a huge concern for law enforcement, for the fbi. its really a problem now that is much bigger probably than any of us have really realized. law enforcement is trying to get people to come forward as they do in terrorism cases, its that whole campaign, if you see something, say something. now were talking about things happening in this country, from folks who are not linked to any kind of overseas terrorism group. its people who are unleashing these kinds of attacks, who are from this country...