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Biden expected to face after the summit. no one thought russia would stop harboring criminals launching the attacks. thank you so much, phil. i want to bring in our panel now to further discuss this. david sanger, you wrote today in the new york times that early indications show russia s intelligence agency may be responsible for the hacks on the rnc vendor. what is the significance of that? there are two types of attacks as you heard from alex before and from phil. and so, there s this state sponsored attacks like those run bis the svr which is one of the spinoffs of the old soviet kgb. and it is primarily an intelligence gathering operation and to some degree that s less upsetting to the administration because states spy on each other. we spy on them. they spy on us. ....
Preview in terms of operational actions or considerations. reporter: according to the new york times, early indications show the culprit is russia s svr intelligence agency, which hacked the democratic national committee six years ago and recently carried out the sweeping solarwinds attack. the white house still reeling after dealing with a ransomware attack on hundreds of businesses worldwide that a russian cyber gang has claimed responsibility for. it happens to have caused minimal damage to u.s. businesses but we re still gathering information. reporter: the latest attacks posing a major test for president biden who promised to be tough on vladimir putin and demanded russia crack down on cyber crimes following their summit in geneva. i talked about the proposition that certain critical infrastructure should be off limits to attack, period, by cyber or any other means. 16 specific entities. reporter: the president warned of consequences if the attacks continued and said h ....
There wasn t any pressure or any hostility from the american delegation. putin came out there and said to cyber hacking, we don t have anything to do without. the majority of that happens in the united states and seconded to united states and canada. he was spinning this in the way he wanted to as a former kgb agent for the world. how can president biden now walk that back? is going to have to be tough and call rush out. it s very easy for president putin to say he doesn t know anything about it but criminal gangs on cyber hackers don t operate in a vacuum in russia. nothing happens in russia without the approval or at least the knowledge of president vladimir putin and kgb and svr and fsg colleagues and i hope president biden delivered a very tough message behind closed doors. but two things happened prior to the summit. the russians had two primary ....
Is you can t see them being developed, you can t verify whether they ve been dismantled. and it s very difficult to prove at least in a public understandable way where they were launched from. now we don t have any doubt that the svr, the most sophisticated of the russian intelligence agencies, was behind the solar winds with attack which was last discovered last december against american federal agencies, against corporations. the ransomware groups are harder to pin down, but we know many of them are based inside russia. but that doesn t mean the russian government was running them, and it makes denials like this all the easier. and so how do you get to an agreement to go limit, say, the targets and so forth if putin won t even admit that they re harboring the hackers? i mean because as one u.s. official had put it in terms of how biden is talking about this ....