Brandon Van Grack, former Chief of DOJ’s Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) Unit, and a lead prosecutor for Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and Alex Iftimie, former Counselor to the Attorney General and former Deputy Chief of Staff and Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for National Security, and now co-chairs of Morrison Foerster’s National Security and Global Risk + Crisis Management groups speak with host Richard Levick of LEVICK about the rise of ransomware. They cover how the threat has evolved; the rising Russia cyberthreats and why it is going to get worse; steps to take to minimize risk and damage; what the government is doing to help and more.
Published September 21, 2022.