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National Security Agency (NSA) Director Paul Nakasone predicted Tuesday that the rate of ransomware attacks will not slow down in the next five years, and said efforts to counter those threats must remain constant a

Seized control of computers worldwide and got around $11 million from its victims according to cyber experts. but earlier this week they vanished from the internet, and no one can or will say why. it comes as the u.s. ramps up its fight against cyber outlaws. the state department is offering huge rewards now for information about cyber attacks on critical infrastructure, up to $10 million. and theres new a government website called stopransomware gaufstopran tell me what do you know about revil ...

Just because of the way it looks like the group was affected. if the u.s. cyber command had wanted to take them offline, blow them out of cyberspace, do you think that u.s. cyber command has that capability? >> they definitely have that capability. last year just ahead of the election cyber command did this, something similar to a ransomware group. it was really a conduit for ransomware, and they basically hacked into their systems and sent their control servers into this never-ending, busy dial...

In that $3.5 trillion. im here today and i just came from the department of commerce where i sat with secretary raymundo and the business council which is 320 business leaders across the country who are advocating for caregiver investments and our message is investing in this care infrastructure is good for business. dara crusher of uber sort of laid out how this, if you invest in it, companies are seeing the roi when they invest in caregiving, the government needs to see the roi and mcdonalds i...

Their revil ransomware attacks going to get their data back, and the other question is, is this just temporary? are they rebranding? are they going to pop up as some other ransomware group in a couple weeks. >> you say that it does not appear that this was a u.s. cyber command operation, meaning a u.s. government offensive operation to take them down. just because of the way it looks like the group was affected. if the u.s. cyber command had wanted to take them offline, blow them out of cyberspa...

Guessing at what might have happened. you know, overnight these -- all the websites that this particular group uses to communicate with its victims, to list the victims that its hacked all of them went down and now has gone completely dark, as you said. its certainly a possibility that the u.s. government may have been involved, but the fbi, u.s. cyber command arent commenting at the moment. other cyber security experts said its possible that there may have been some sort of planned maintenance ...

Today. notable timing. cnns brian joins me now. two questions, how and who. how do we believe they went offline and do we have a sense of who might be responsible? >> jim, to your first question, thats fairly easy to answer. essentially all of the websites that revil uses to list its victims and collect ransom payments, all those websites have now gone offline. the why is really the bigger question here. you know, whether it was a u.s. operation or russian operation or simply revil saying were g...

We just know that at 1:30 a.m. last night around eastern time someone pulled revil offline. their payment system went down. their servers went down. one of their most renowned members claims to are been banned from cyber criminal forums. so there are three options. this was either a cybercommand operation which so far it doesnt appear to be because theres no indication that their servers were actually hacked. this could be a russian operation. or this could be revil basically pulling the plug on...

Vulnerable than anybody in cyberspace. now what experts are saying is this behavior has gone unpunished for years and its reached a tipping point where its massive, where its affecting critical infrastructure, like gas pipelines, meat processors. now weve seen the biggest ransomware attack that appears to have come from russia and the biden administration is confronting exactly what to do about it and there are no easy answers. >> lets talk about what weve tried, sanctions. so what are some of t...

Feel like this should be a top priority issue. maybe he thought this would be handled over time and negotiations. but we dont have time here. we need to act now. we need to demand that these individuals responsible for this particular hack get arrested. the key gets turned over to the businesses that need to decrypt their data. >> biden has not called out putin publicly about this attack. but jen psaki said that biden officials are meeting to discuss ransomware. it is possible they will deliver ...