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To note is these groups operate with complete impunity inside the russian government. the russian government may not know exactly which targets they're going after but they have no recourse for going after u.s.-based targets as long as they don't target russian influences or russian government entities. they can essentially work, you know, causing as much damage as possible. revil more specifically nets over $100 million a year from ransomware groups. darkside very similar to that figure as well. another one million hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. these groups continue to grow as th...

General leticia james who is now aggressively pursuing a case against the company for having used the trump administration's cronyism, catastrophic covid response as an opportunity for what looks like blatant, illegal, inside trading. her office is seeking a court order to force the kodak ceo and general counsel to testify publicly about the matter. her office says kodak's statements to investors claiming the stock trades were in compliance with company insider trading policy, ms. james' office says now to the court those statements were false and misleading. kodak is denying this. they say at...

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 are not likely to have their head 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 or any other government entity have the ability to offensively combat them, to either dismantle t...

Then knocks at your door and says, all right, you want to negotiate? but that's exactly what's happening. some of these ransomware groups actually want to have good customer service. now, i can't recommend that you pay $300 to a criminal. you have to decide what your data is worth. do you have it backed up somewhere? is there something compromising on that data on your computer that you don't want people seeing that you want to get back? but at the end of the day, these groups want to have a good reputation so that people have an incentive to pay. so, we even see sometimes with ransomware, the...