Ilya Fushman

So it just takes a lot of investigation.

It takes a lot of cleanup.

You know, we started this segment talking about how, you know, 10 days after the initial attack, this is still causing an issue.

We've also talked a lot on the show this past week with experts in the industry about the sophistication and competence of Iran's cyber threat, right?

Where does this rank, Jeff, in sort of historic attacks at the nation state level against the United States of America?

This is not, uh, the kind of threat that, you know, national security officials have warned about from the likes of a Russia or China.

Iran is a little more specialized.

They're a little more opportunistic.

What they do is they try to inflict, um, pain and project power in any way they can.

So they saw an opportunity here, um, to go against, uh, the U S healthcare sector, right.

And cause some economic pain for this company.

They've disrupted some surgeries.

We know that some facilities around the country have pushed back procedures as a result of this.

It is not the level of a big kind of blackout or electrical failure like you see in the movies.

We know that companies have to have their defenses up against things like phishing attacks.

I don't expect that to subside.

U.S.

national security officials, European officials have said don't rest on this because this is a reliable means for Iran to try to even the playing field.

Bloomberg's Jeff Stone with the reporting.

Thank you very much.