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If the russian government didn't want these ransomware groups to operate, they would not be operating, 100%. so it would require the russian government to take a different stance on these ransomware groups that are operating out of russia. let's just be frank. you have the top five ransomware groups are out of russia. they're making hundreds of millions of dollars being influxed into the russian government and it's good for business for russia, bad for business for the united states so it's good for russia ultimately. there are cases where we've worked very closely with a number of different c...

Supply lines in part because that's in the russian government's interest in the terms of the way they're trying to test and provoke president biden ahead of that meeting? >> that's a great point to bring up. we've never really seen ransomware groups target critical infrastructure like we have in the past several months. russia has also been involved, the russian government, the fsb, has been heavily involved in some major prolific attacks against solarwinds, all the major companies that are technological backbones of our company. also going after federal government agencies, our energy grid. r...

Major distinctions and sanctions and going after the country, and making russia really focus primarily on targeting these organizations are making some sort of change. we just have not seen that historically former shuttle. >> last question for you, david. president biden and vladimir putin are due to have a summit in two weeks. and we are seeing a lot of provocative behavior by russia leading up to that summit. we are even seeing the russian government bragging about the fact that they are planning on being even more provocative leading up to that summit. do you think that it is possible that...

Darkside filled. it's really a whack-a-mole problem with these different groups. they're getting paid, so companies are paying the money for that, which is one problem. the second problem is that these groups can work with impunity without worrying about getting busted if they're in russia. it will take some pretty major sanctions and making russia focused on targeting these organizations to make some sort of change and we have not seen that historically from russia at all. >> last question for you, david. president biden and vladimir putin are due to have a summit in two weeks, and we're seei...

Groups. >> is this a problem that is more sophisticated and larger than law enforcement and 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 they are not likely to have their hand 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 states ...