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It is something that the fbi and intelligence community really needs to work on. but everything needs to be done because this is clearly a threat that can impact us in astounding ways. i think people are just opening their eyes to that now. >> and serious people have been warning for years of this. i want to play something that dan coats, a former director of national national intelligence said in 2018. >> in 2001, our vulnerability was heightened because of the stove pipe approach of silohs of information. it was in the months prior to september 2001 when according to the then cia director th...

Comments, from the press secretary's comments, from secretary of homeland security, all of them point to the same thing, the government is taking ransomware seriously, and this is a signal that we're not going to take it anymore. but consistent with anne ne newberger's memo, it is going to take a whole nation effort, not just the government. it's going to take the private sector to up their defenses. the government is going to use a different and new set of tools and capabilities to push back on these criminal gangs. >> this certainly isn't the first time we've heard an alert like this. you he...

Pipeline and food companies. >> i'm here to say the warning lights are blinking red again. today the digital infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack. >> those warning lights are now doing more than just blinking. they are fully on. wolf, i'm told these attacks from russia are going to be a big part of biden's trip to europe both at the g7 and at his face to face meeting with vladimir putin in which he's expecting to tell the russian president he has to crack down on these hackers inside russia, that they're fundamentally destabilizing to the relationship. biden says h...

September 2001 when according to then cia director george tenant, the system was blinking red. and here we are two decades -- nearly two decades later. and here to see the warning lights are blinking red again. today, the digital infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack. >> those lights are certainly doing more than just blinking now. now, the string of cyberattacks from russia, whether it's criminal groups or coming from government hackers, is certainly something that will be raised, you can imagine, in that summit between presidents putin and biden in geneva in just ...

To take down the attackers, and deter them from even trying. >> it really requires the government to take additional actions. they've got to work, collaboratively, with foreign law enforcement agencies to take these people off the field. to use law-enforcement efforts, intelligence-agency efforts, economic sanctions, to disrupt and deter these actors. >> reporter: most of the recent, major attacks have come from russia. government hackers, in the case of a breach like solarwinds, and criminal hackers striking the pipeline and food companies. today's comparison of cyberattacks to other terroris...