'Billion Dollar Heist' sneak peek: 'We've had ransomware attacks'
Watch an exclusive clip about the the growing threat of cybercrime
Video Transcript
- We've had Stuxnet, blowing up the Natanz centrifuge plant. We've had ransomware attacks, which hit the Eastern seaboard. There was no gas to the Eastern seaboard for a whole week in the United States. We had Russia against the Ukraine shutting out the power in the middle of winter.
We're talking about people losing their lives. We've also had cyber attacks that potentially affected the US elections. We had the health care system in the UK brought down. Dialysis machines no longer working.
- This is an extremely fragile situation. Much more fragile than the period of detente because so many more countries have these weapons. Malware is much more difficult to control than nuclear weapons.
- People always warn me of the cyber Pearl Harbor, the cyber 9/11, but it's almost worse than that. Every day, there are thousands of cyber attacks. And we're just getting more and more and more inured to them. It's like a plague.
- I think we'll see much more hostile cyber activity, much more cyber bank robberies, much more cyber espionage. We'll see much more cyber war. In many ways, I think we've seen nothing yet.
- Does attacks increase in their sophistication and their range, then the impact can be ever greater. There is a cyber attack on critical national infrastructure coming to a place near you within the next 5 to 10 years.
