country for instance russia. what it is similar to the wannacry hack attack that we saw a month or so ago is that it does use the same exploit. this eternal blue exploit that was released by hackers from a trove of nsa cyber tools back in march. as you pointed out, windows has come up with a patch. some people have updated their software, but what s really interesting about this particular attack is that it seems as though a number of companies hadn t updated all of their software. this has netted huge names, wpp, the world s biggest advertising company, so these companies are not facing a shutdown of some of their data, they ll be facing difficult conversations with their clients who are going to ask, why didn t you manage to update all of your softwares because we know these hack attacks are happening on a month by month basis. and for the moment, there is no kill switch for this one that has been found. it is amazing companies did
megan was s megyn was saying, the autopsies, everyone and they are completely denying it. yes, what you saw in that segment and the question about interference, using cyber tools, it is a classic russian play book. first so sow confusion about what happened. to demand proof to ask questioned about evidence and details that vladimir putin knows can t be provided openly, things like sensitive intelligence information, and finally to lay claim to legitimacy and argue around the legitimacy of actions and who is to blame, et cetera. this is classic and in some ways predictable. kudos to her for pressing him on the issues. you saw discomfort there in trying to defend something that he knows is indefensible.
perception, rising stability and with increasing reect in the world. respect is important. russians have immense national pride. russia is after all the largest country on the planet. 48 times larger than germany. encome passes 11 time zones and straddles europe, asia and the middle east. contains large reserves of natural material. culturally, it has often thought of itself as the third rome preserving christianity even as rome and bizzantium fell to the barbarians. putin understands russia, he also understands the world. he s not foolish enough to make a frontal assault on europe or america. he knows how to use power. asymmetrically with cyber tools and disinformation, he understands the vulnerabilities of free societies. the internal divisions and discord, and the gaping openness.
security exposed the files. the cia was so careless to produce this material, this enormous cyber weapons arsenal and lose control of it. at least once. and then it has spread. reporter: he then implied that cia cyber tools may already be in the hands of criminal syndicates or hostile foreign intelligence agency. he then reinforced the claim that the cia can bypass encryption. doesn t matter what encryption you re running in. you can bypass the encryption, you can turn on the microphones. it can monitor movements. it can act sraeut the camera to look at photos have have been taken. reporter: he said nothing today when asked by reporters about the source. sandra: how is the administration responding? reporter: well, the cia just a few hours ago issued this
the u.s. and china promising to join together in the fight of cyber crime. president obama and the president of china speaking about their plans. despite the pledge, president obama still laying out a possibility of new sanctions for the government in beijing. always nice to talk to you. you re right these two titans have been talking about cyber security for the most part and what some are really calling a cyber war front. to be clear espionage is fairly common among major nations. what s different is the chinese are being accused of using cyber tools to steal from u.s. companies for profit. i raised very serious concerns about growing cyber threats to american companies and american citizens. i indicated it has to stop.