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Lisa monaco, to fyodor prosecutors. we must enhance and centralize our internal tracking investigations and prosecutions of ransomware groups, and infrastructure networks that allows the threats to pursue. persists here's my question, ransom is a classic collective action problem, right? so if a loved one of yours were kidnapped, speaking for myself, i think anyone would do anything possible to get them back. if it meant paying a lot of money, i would do it. and the problem with that is that the it vigils that -- if everyone does that you incentivize for the kidnappings. which is why the u.s. ...

This way. >> he knows how destructive and harmful the ransomware and cyberattacks can be, so destructive to the countries critical infrastructure, even harm people. now we hear the biden administration talking about this -- this threat in terms of this being a -- an urgent national security priority, especially following the two major ransomware attacks against jbs foods and colonial pipeline. and they are now calling on companies across the country to harden their own cyber-defenses as they say they are going overseas to try to disrupt the ransomware groups. >> the cyberthreats against the un...

One of the things that the biden administration has talked about in terms of fending this off is putting more resources in terms of analyzing the cryptocurrency chain and so that they can better track these criminals and have a sense of what they're up to. two other tactics that they're highlighting is, they are -- they say, going after, disrupting the ransomware networks and, you know, the government has significant capabilities to do that. the problem is oftentimes it's a situation of whack-a-mole. they take down a network or take out a bunch of hackers here and then pop up somewhere else. a...

We must enhance and centralize our internal tracking and investigations and prosecutions of ransomware groups. here's my question -- ransom is a classic collective action problem. so if a loved one of yours were kidnapped, i speaking for myself, could do anything possible to get them back, and if that meant paying a lot of money, i would do it. the problem with that is the individual incentive to pay the ransom, but if everyone does that you would incentivize more kidnappings. seems like there's a collective action problem here. i understand why colonial pipeline ponied up the money, but that'...

It's not they have pronounceable americanized names. anything that rhymes with evil by definition is pretty catchy when you're an organized crime group. here's what the fbi said tonight in their statement attributing blame for the jbs attack to these groups. it says we have attributed the jbs attack to r evil and sodinokibi and are working diligently to bring the threat actors to justice. we continue to focus our efforts on imposing risks and consequences and holding the responsible cyber actors accountable. a cyberattack on one is an attack on us all. we encourage any entity who is the victim...