The European Union for the first time introduced sanctions for cyber attacks against citizens and structures of Russia, China and the DPRK.
Reported by the press service of the EU Council.
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As noted, such sanctions are introduced by the EU for the first time.
Employees of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Russia Alexey Minin, Alexey Morenets, Yevgeny Serebryakov and Oleg Sotnikov fell under the sanctions.
Also, the European Union imposed sanctions on the structure of the GRU - the Main Center for Special Technologies of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.
In addition, due to cyber attacks, the EU imposed sanctions on two Chinese citizens, as well as one organization from China and one from the DPRK..
The people and organizations that have been sanctioned are implicated in the attack against the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the WannaCry, NotPetya and Cloud Hopper attacks, according to the EU..