worth of cryptocurrency which had been paid to hackers who shut down a major fuel pipeline last month. the colonial pipeline was hacked by a group called darkside which the usjustice department believes is based in russia. the cyber attack caused petrol shortages and price hikes across the eastern united states. here s the fbi explaining what it did and why it matters. today, the fbi successfully seized criminal proceeds from a bitcoin wallet that darkside ransomware actors used to collect a cyber ransom payment from a victim. we deprived a cyber criminal enterprise of the object of their activity, their financial proceeds and funding. for financially motivated cyber criminals, especially those presumably located overseas, cutting off access to revenue is one of the most impactful consequences we can impose. glen goodman is a bitcoin expert and author of the crypto trader . hejoins me now.
the us vice president kamala harris has warned guatemalans against coming to the united states saying they would be turned back at the border. speaking during a visit to guatemala, she said the trip north was extremely dangerous and would mainly benefit people smugglers. the first new treatment for alzheimer s for nearly twenty years has been approved by regulators in the united states. aducanumab targets the underlying cause of alzheimer s. the drug, given as a monthly infusion, targets amyloid a protein that builds up in the brains of alzheimer s patients. the us government says it s managed to recover more than $2 million worth of cryptocurrency which had been paid to hackers who shut down a major fuel pipeline last month. the colonial pipeline was hacked by a group called darkside which the us justice department believes is based in russia.
hello again. this is bbc news. the headlines: the us vice president, kamala harris, has warned guatemalans against coming to the united states, saying they would be turned back at the border. speaking during a visit to guatemala, she said the trip north was extremely dangerous and would mainly benefit people smugglers. the first new treatment for alzheimer s for nearly 20 years has been approved by regulators in the united states. aducanumab targets the underlying cause of alzheimer s. the drug, given as a monthly infusion, targets amyloid, that s a protein that builds up in the brains of alzheimer s patients. the us government says it s managed to recover more than $2 million worth of cryptocurrency which had been paid to hackers who shut down a major fuel pipeline last month. the colonial pipeline was hacked by a group called darkside, which the us justice department believes is based in russia.
this week, florida s uf-health hospitals, serving the largest retirement community in the u.s., shutting down their entire i.t. system after discovering hackers, resorting to paper records. jbs, the world s largest meat supplier, halting meat production. and hackers taking down the largest fuel pipeline in the u.s., too, leading to power shortages and long gas lines. fbi director christopher wray announcing they re investigating a hundred different types of ransomware, many tracing back to hackers in russia. wray comparing the scale of the threat and the challenge involved as that posed by the 9/11 attack. we cannot give any quarter and no country should be harboring criminal actors of any type. reporter: president biden and vladimir putin are set to meet face-to-face in just 11 days time at a summit in geneva. the white house says president biden will be raising the issue of cyber crime. whit? julia, thank you. now to north carolina and the growing outrage after a high
they are on. i m told, this is going to be a significant part of president biden s upcoming trip to europe. both, at the g7. and then, in that one-on-one summit with president vladimir putin in geneva. president biden will make clear that russia has to take action to crack down on these groups. and tell putin that they are fundamentally destabilizing to the relationship. biden has repeatedly said that he wants a stable, and predictable relationship with russia. alex marquardt, cnn, washington. and russia s leader is brushing off the u.s. allegations that the most recent ransomware attacks came from russian hackers. cnn s matthew chance has that part of the story. well, vladimir putin, sharply, rejecting allegations that russia is, in any way, implicated in the recent ransomware cyberattacks in the united states. describing them as nonsense, ridiculous, and just hilarious. u.s. officials say two recent attacks on a crucial u.s. fuel pipeline, and on a major