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63.7 bit coins which is valued at around $2.3 million. this is not something that happens often, it's the first operation of its kind from doj's new ransomware task force and it highlights one of the primary tactics that the biden administration now wants to use to disrupt these ransomware networks. follow the cryptocurrency that they use to track them down and remove their incentive for carrying out these attacks. >> no organization is immune. so today i want to emphasize to leaders of corporations and communities alike the threat of severe ransomware attacks pose a clear and present danger t...

Ransomware task force. but in announcing this, the department of justice also called on companies to do whatever they can now to fortify their cyber defenses. take a listen to what the deputy attorney general lisa monaco had to say today. >> no organization is immune. so today i want to emphasize to leaders of corporations and communities alike the threat of severe ransom ware attacks pose a clear and present danger to your organization, to your company, to your customers, to your shareholders and to your long-term success. so pay attention now, invest resources now. failure to do so could be ...

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Question. the ransomware task force came out with a report saying 80% of ransomware payments over the last year went to just 199 big addresses. in fact of those, 25 addresses made at 46% of the money going in. so we know where these addresses are. we have to go after them, work with the cryptocurrency providers to understand who's on their networks. the government has got to get its arms around it, figure out how to work with industry to solve these problems. >> all right, we do appreciate you bring with. us jamil jaffer, with your analysis on all of. this these are scary times. i really hope ...

Rick Newman June 3, 2021, 12:46 PM As a presidential candidate in 2020, Joe Biden never mentioned ransomware. As president, however, he must craft a solution to a burgeoning economic and national-security threat that may now rank as dangerous as terrorism.  Ransomware attacks, perpetrated by hackers who paralyze an organization’s computer network and demand a ransom payment to unlock it, aren’t new. They date back to at least 2006 as a kind of side gig for enterprising hackers. What is new is the corporatization of ransomware attacks and the use of cryptocurrency as an untraceable form o...