Finally, the EU is getting more serious too about Russian, North Korean, and Chinese spying and hacking! The West has been way too lenient for way too long!
"Retaliation for Russian attacks: The most prominent target of EU action is unit 74455 of Russia’s GRU military intelligence service, a group known as Sandworm. It is linked to the NotPetya ransomware attacks, which experts say began as a political attack against Ukraine but then quickly spread across the world and caused over $10 billion in damage. ... China’s corporate espionage: In China, two citizens and a company, Haitai Technology Development, were sanctioned in connection with a hacking campaign known as Cloudhopper. ... The North Korean firm Chosun Expo was sanctioned because of its role supporting WannaCry , the 2017 ransomware outbreak that ripped through IT systems across the globe"
Chinese and Russian hackers were just sanctioned by Europe for the first time | MIT Technology Review The European Union imposed its first-ever sanctions for cyberattacks on Thursday, targeting Russian, Chinese, and North Korean groups connected to several major hacking incidents.
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