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Guessing at what might have happened. you know, overnight these -- all the websites that this particular group uses to communicate with its victims, to list the victims that it's hacked all of them went down and now has gone completely dark, as you said. it's certainly a possibility that the u.s. government may have been involved, but the fbi, u.s. cyber command aren't commenting at the moment. other cyber security experts said it's possible that there may have been some sort of planned maintenance going on. let me just read you a little bit of some of what other cyber security experts are say...

Today. notable timing. cnn's brian joins me now. two questions, how and who. how do we believe they went offline and do we have a sense of who might be responsible? >> jim, to your first question, that's fairly easy to answer. essentially all of the websites that revil uses to list its victims and collect ransom payments, all those websites have now gone offline. the why is really the bigger question here. you know, whether it was a u.s. operation or russian operation or simply revil saying we're going to take a break for a while. all of that is still very much unclear. the fbi, u.s. cyber com...

We just know that at 1:30 a.m. last night around eastern time someone pulled revil offline. their payment system went down. their servers went down. one of their most renowned members claims to are been banned from cyber criminal forums. so there are three options. this was either a cybercommand operation which so far it doesn't appear to be because there's no indication that their servers were actually hacked. this could be a russian operation. or this could be revil basically pulling the plug on themselves because they are under so much heat right now. and really the question is, a, how are ...

Vulnerable than anybody in cyberspace. now what experts are saying is this behavior has gone unpunished for years and it's reached a tipping point where it's massive, where it's affecting critical infrastructure, like gas pipelines, meat processors. now we've seen the biggest ransomware attack that appears to have come from russia and the biden administration is confronting exactly what to do about it and there are no easy answers. >> let's talk about what we've tried, sanctions. so what are some of the harsher options available to send a clear message the u.s. is not going to tolerate russia ...

Feel like this should be a top priority issue. maybe he thought this would be handled over time and negotiations. but we don't have time here. we need to act now. we need to demand that these individuals responsible for this particular hack get arrested. the key gets turned over to the businesses that need to decrypt their data. >> biden has not called out putin publicly about this attack. but jen psaki said that biden officials are meeting to discuss ransomware. it is possible they will deliver a private warning. jeff? >> yeah. beyond the warnings, president biden, he warned putin that the u....