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President Biden said the federal government is "doing its part" to prepare for an attack.

Targeted, allegedly by an outside government. we're now learning details of a computer attack on sands casinos. as cnn's brian todd reports, that cyberattack may have been meant to punish the company's ceo for comments he made about iran. >> reporter: a cascading attack, servers shut down, screens go blank. a rush to unplug computers. this wasn't the hack on sony. this attack hit the world's largest casino operation, including the venetian hotel in las vegas ten months ago, and this also may have been the work of a rogue nation. cnn has learned on february 10th of this year, thousands of emplo...

The white house is labeling the attack on seen knee as a national security threat against the united states and promising a proportional response. u.s. investigators have concluded that north korea is behind the attack. we're also learning new details about a computer attack earlier this year. the source, another long-time adversary of the united states. cnn's brian todd is looking into this for us. what are you learning? >> wolf, many think the attack on sony was the first time that a foreign government tried to destroy the network of a company because it didn't like what that company said or...

Believes the revolutionary guard has teams of freelancers on the outside that help launch attacks but also cover its tracks when an attack has been launched. >> you don't need a lot of hackers. you only need a few who know what they are doing. >> that's right. >> they can go inside that system and steal stuff for months at a time and then start releasing it and it's a disaster, obviously, as we've seen with sony pictures and what has happened. >> and very hard to trace, of course. >> brian, thanks very much. evan perez has been working his sources. he's here with i cbreaking news about the son...

Suspected to be behind the computer attack on sony pictures, there are new indications kim jong-un's country may become even more aggressive and let's bring in brian todd working this part of the story. >> kim jong-un was supposed to be toned down in his aggression for the first three years of his leadership after his father's death. he quickly tossed that notion out the window. tonight we're coming out of that period of mourning and observers are worried that this menacing, erratic young leader will do something very dangerous. ♪ ♪ >> he's now unshackled, free to be more aggressive as he ...