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In iran, the state—run television channel has been hacked — to broadcast a protest against the country's government and supreme leader. viewers saw the usual live programming interrupted without warning. the images show ayatollah ali khamenei with a target on his head — along with pictures of women said to have been killed by police and captions encouraging people tojoin demonstrations. earlier i spoke to kasra naji from the bbc�*s persian service and asked him about that hacking of the state television's news bulletin and how serious it was and what we should make of it. the iranian g...

It's a business that's very profitable, and we'll continue to see hackers overseas, criminals overseas continue to flood into the market. >> reporter:rance comewear attackers take control of a network and hold it hostage until they are paid. colonial pipeline paid its attacker $4.4 million. jbs has not said whether they have paid anything. those two attacks follow two other recent major operations by russian government hackers, the unprecedented solar winds breech and last week's attacks targeting hundreds of government agencies and organizations, but it's hat hacking of critical infrastructur...

Bunk that fiona hill told congress and she is as senior ands learned as you get, that this is a fiction perpetrated by russia to somehow have peep 8 believe ukraine, which is in a war with russia, was the one involved in t hacking or interfering in the u.s. election. what more, michael can you say toou people who continue to believee this or purp trait th? >> there are several different strands.hi the most kind of credible one then ukrainian ambassador to the united states castating donald trump for comments he made. number one donald trump, then candidate trump said that most criemeens want t...

>> and for that the president didn't even have his interpreter, i believe it was only the russian interpreter. so we're not likely to hear from him. so the phone call, most of it was off the record. but some of it he immediately said when he landed back in public. so it was in his mind. what it basically was, was that vladimir putin had made the argument that the russians are so good at hacking that had they done it, they never would have been caught. and he said, i found that a pretty convincing argument. i said to him, well, you know, if you go back and look at what the intelligence reports ...

Of these efforts? i believe that russian intelligence is very good at hacking. i don't know that russia intelligence knows which counties in pennsylvania and ohio and wisconsin in which to generate the kind of pressure or news or social media pressure that apparently happened. so those are the kinds of questions i imagine robert mueller is examining. they're not at all incompatible or they don't contradict what donald trump is saying. he deserves a lot of credit. it still might be, however, though many great boxers who were boxing in fights that were fixed. it doesn't mean they weren't great b...