. >>> theresa payton, a former white house chief information officer under president george w. down, we don't know what caused them to go down. how are cyber security experts like yourself interpreting this ransomware group suddenly going dark? >> there could be a variety of different reasons, and one of my first thoughts was for any unfortunate victims who may have paid, been wait to go receive their encryption keys to deencrypt the data and didn't receive it because these guys went dark. there's a couple different reasons that could be behind this. the first one is it could be that the russian government asked them to go dark or took them off line. it could be the hosting site got nervous and took them off line. there might be a u.s. government operation that we're not going to get all the details on. and then, lastly, just like dark side, they may have decided that the heat got a little hot. they're going to lay low. and then they're going to retool and re-emerge as someone else operating under a different name, recruiting new affiliates. i doubt that they have decided it's

i want to go to theresa payton, what she thinks of this and what president biden needs to do to responde biden in a response to this? >> i would love to hear president biden say as part of the actions taking on offense we will be encouraging putin to either take those syndicates off-line himself, the government controls much of the access in russia, if we turn over evidence who is behind the cyber criminal syndicates, and the syndicate are evil, and that arrests will happen with raids on where the operatives are working. if putin doesn't respond, infrastructure, stopping the flow of money and alliances with the european union about energy purchases from russia. neil: vladimir putin essentially said that he's not aware of this, it might be happening in russia and not aware of it and i'm thinking he was a top kgb agent and a way to ferreting out his enemies in russia and all over the world. we suspect he does protest too much. if he's aware of this, and we had to slap on additional sanctions or to we do something more on his level and hack right back? >> welcome, we have to obviously, as

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