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The Fox News Rundown

Evening Edition: Russian Hackers Hitting American Consumers In Their Wallets

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Podcasts

News, Daily News, Politics

3.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

The FBI has said a Russian cyber-criminal group was behind the attack on JBS, the world's largest meat processing company, shutting down their operations in multiple countries. Besides large payouts by companies being held hostage, these ransomware attacks on American businesses hit the consumer in their pocket. FOX's Eben Brown speaks with Jason Crabtree, CEO of QOMPLX, about how these groups infiltrate a business and how to protect against it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Brian Kilmeade and this is the Fox News rundown.

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Friday, June 4th, 2021, I'm Eben Brown. Even more infrastructure and industry have had their

0:31.4

computer systems attacked by hackers using

0:34.3

ransomware. This is more than science fiction and it will affect your wallet

0:39.6

if it continues. They're targeting stuff that consumers are dealing with every day, right?

0:44.0

Hitting us at the gas pump, hitting us for a burger, right?

0:47.2

These are the things that have made it really, really visible to a lot of consumers

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simultaneously.

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This is the Fox News rundown evening edition.

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Earlier this year, an on-duty operator at a water treatment plant in Florida noticed the cursor on his

1:04.6

computer screen move by itself. Somebody attempted to change settings that could have made water

1:10.8

toxic to drink. A few weeks ago colonial pipeline had to pay millions

1:15.7

to regain access to its computers to resume sending gasoline to East Coast states that drop in

1:21.7

supply drove prices high this week JBS one of the largest

1:26.0

meat packing plants had to stop production when their computers were hacked and

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