group behind the attacks of more than 360 targets in the u.s. alone hand more than 350 companies around the world alone over the fourth of july weekend has suddenly disappeared from the internet. we don t know who or what was behind the site s vanishing but it comes days after president biden spoke with russian president vladimir putin on the phone and warned him if he did not take action against the ransomware groups that were based in russia, the u.s. would act. joining me now from moscow is nbc moscow nbc news matt. what more have you learned about this ransomware gang group going off line? these hacker stories are always a bit murky, but this one might actually take the cake. we got a very interesting analysis from flash point, a cyber security firm that follows some of these russian hacker groups and they reported that they ve been monitoring the forums as well. we re on day two now.