The Council of the European Union imposed its first-ever sanction against persons or entities engaged with different cyber-attacks focusing on European citizens and its member states.
The sanctions imposed include a ban for people traveling to any EU nations and a freeze of assets on persons and entities.
The order has been issued against six individuals and three entities liable for or associated with different cyber-attacks. Out of the six individuals sanctioned they include two Chinese citizens and four Russian nationals.
The companies associated with carrying out these cyber-attacks incorporate an export firm situated in North Korea, and technology companies from China and Russia.
The entities responsible for or engaged with different cyber-attacks incorporate some publicly referred to ones as 'WannaCry', 'NotPetya', and 'Operation Cloud Hopper,' just as an endeavored cyber-attack against the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons.
As per the European Council, the detailed of these persons or entities are:
1. Two Chinese Individuals—Gao Qiang and Zhang Shilong—and a technology firm, named Tianjin Huaying Haitai Science and Technology Development Co. Ltd, for the Operation Cloud Hopper.
2. Four Russian nationals (also wanted by the FBI) — Alexey Valeryevich, Aleksei Sergeyvich, Evgenii Mikhaylovich, and Oleg Mikhaylovich—for attempting to target the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), in the Netherlands.
3. A Russian technology firm (exposed by the NSA) — Main Centre for Special Technologies (GTsST) of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation— ..
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