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And that's the end of it. well, here's the justice department coming along saying, those days are over. we are now going after that behavior, because in many instances, that behavior violates american law. so they can charge these people with money laundering. and they can seize their assets. they've always been able to do that, but they hadn't put the resources into it. so now they're doing that, jose. and it's a significant development. i would also say on the bot net, in 2020, microsoft took down a major russian bot net, which is a network of computers that can be used to mount cyber attack...

Disrupt this bot net before it could be used. thanks to our close work with international partners, we were able to detect the infection of thousands of network hardware devices. we were then able to disabled the gru's control over those devices, before the bot net could be weaponized. today's announcements are part of a series of actions that the justice department has recently taken to disrupt and prosecute criminal activity associated with russia. yesterday, together with our german law enforcement partners, we seized the russia-affiliated hydra dark net market. the world's largest illegal ...

Ukraine would know for sure that it emerged out of russia. >> yeah, joy, this is a hacker penetrating into a system and shutting down a computer network. instead, the whole idea is that you call up massive numbers of computer, to essentially get a website request at the same time. imagine a hose and funnel, you're overflowing the funnel with water, the systems can't respond to it. we see this when we have very famous fixers, maybe show up on social media and somebody says the system goes down, they do except it's not intentional. it's very hard to prove exactly where it comes from because it's...

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Disruption that the fbi and doj have taken to impose risk and consequences on cyber adversaries. since announcing our new cyber strategy last year, we have dismantled the infrastructure of the criminal bot net through an unprecedented coalition of u.s. and national law enforcement and private industry partners. additionally, we have joined other government partners to expose a cyber tool developed by the russian gru. we have also used legal authorities to remove malicious back doors and installed in the microsoft exchange server customers across the united states. and just last week, doj annou...