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We've been talking about cyber for a long time. finally the american public is starting to wake up to the ramifications of these attacks. there's generally been two types of cyber incidents, one where a nation state steals information, two, where cyber criminals come in and threaten to shut down a system and demand ransomware. we've seen these individual attacks of these pipeline companies, ferry companies, meat packing companies. what i'm really worried about is if we saw the kind of massive, across-the-system attack that took place last year, the solar winds attack, they got into 18,000 diff...

Last year i worked on legislation that became law to tighten up our illegal cash payments, the use of dummy corporations. america was, frankly, not even at international standards. we need more transparency. right what's happening around ransomware, not only are the companies not reporting they're attacked, but they're not reporting ransomware payments. >> i want to get to the ransomware payment in a second. you want to make it basically illegal to not report a ransom ware attack if you're a company based in the united states. what about a step further where you mandate a minimum level of secu...

President biden's summit with russia's vladimir putin, we're learning details of what appears to be a new russian cyber attack. the targets were u.s. and foreign government agencies. cbs' weijia jiang reports from the white house. >> reporter: the group behind the brazen hack is known as nobleium, linked to vladimir putin's intelligence unit, and the mastermind of the historic solar winds cyber attack last year. this time, microsoft said the hackers targeted approximately 3,000 individual accounts at more than 150 organizations using emails like this one that appeared to be from the government...

Hoover institution. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is mete with chuck todd. good sunday morning. we are a nation under attack right now, cyberattack. last week cyber criminals slowed food production here and abroad. last month hackers caused lines up and down the east coast. there have been ransomware attacks. so many areas are at risk and so many companies with enough money to pay the ransom. many of those payments are being done in cryptocurrency which is much harder to trace, another...