girls opened the door and tried to escape, according to the minister, and they were hacked with ma shesties, and at least 20 girls were killed but the boy s dormitory was locked and they were unable to get in and the first video, they through a petro bomb in the boys dormitory and the kids were in there and at least 17 of them are burnt beyond recognition. they will need to do dna analysis to identify those bodies and sends them to their family. a really horrific attack the worst that uganda has seen in decades and the worst carried out since 1998 when there was an attack on another educational institution and people were killed. the people who live in this area are scared for their lives. i want to listen to one person who lives in this area. we are in a lot of fear. we do not know how we are going to get help, because it seems like the rebels are amongst us. they come spying and we need a lot of protection.
to release all kinds of data online, unless they get their ransom, this group behind this attack is known to ask for millions of dollars in ransom. but u.s. and state government officials have said that they have not yet received any ransom demands. so ahmed, what does that tell you? yes, there is quite interesting, this group, also known as ta-505, they are a russian-speaking group, but it s not clear if there s any connection right now to the russian government itself. but also it highlights the fact that this is a vulnerability of these actors, operating from safe havens, such as russia, now one of the things they said was they really weren t interested in government data, and they are purely motivated by financial means, and they wanted, you know, to extort the businesses impacted, to pay up, otherwise they would produce data, now that s what they said, and it is
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the hackers exploited a vulnerability in a very popular software called move it. it is a file transfer software that governments and organizations use to sends files from one system to another. the hack actually began several weeks ago, but this week, cnn broke the news that multiple u.s. government agencies were impacted. the investigation is ongoing. this appears to be a very opportunistic attack. and there s not really a risk of any sort of disruption to government services. however, it is another reminder of the threat from ran someware which has haunted organizations around the world in the last few years. hackers from russia and eastern europe and elsewhere, have been able to extort organizations for millions of dollars and continue to fuel their attacks, using the money they earned. thanks for that report. with me now is a former special assistant to the president for cybersecurity, who is also a senior director under president joe biden on the national security council. ahm
i m pamela brown in washington. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the word. you are in the cnn newsroom on this holiday weekend. it s great to have you along. we want to start tonight with cyber, and what could be one of the most significant cyber attacks yet. a ransom ware attack has paralyzed the networks of at least 200 u.s. companies. cyber security experts are again blaming russians, just weeks after president biden told vladimir putin to back off. tonight, biden is weighing in, telling reporters, we re not certain who is behind the attacks, adding, the initial thinking is that it was not the russian government. now, we do know for a fact that this was the same gang of cyber criminals believed to operate out of eastern europe or russia that hit the meat supplier jbs foods in the spring. my next guest is one of the country s top cyber security experts. he says this is the most significant ransomware attack