US Sanctions Russia Over NotPetya Outbreak, Energy Grid Hacks, Election Meddling

[Faybert]

The United States has imposed sanctions against Russian entities for the NotPetya ransomware outbreak, cyber-attacks on the US power grid, and their attempts to influence the 2016 US presidential election process.

The sanctions were announced earlier today in a press release by the US Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

The US Treasury has named five entities and 19 individuals in its press release. The name at the top of the sanctions list is the Internet Research Agency LLC (IRA), a so-called "troll farm" operated out of Sankt Petersburg, involved with the proliferation of fake news and the creation of several controversial organizations that attempted to sway the outcome of the 2016 US election.

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The list includes mainly individuals and organizations lending support to IRA, but also some high-ranking officials in Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) and Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) —believed to be involved with the NotPetya ransomware outbreak and the cyber-attacks on the US energy sector.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a joint alert through the US-CERT website detailing the attacks on the US power grid.
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[DeepWeb]

And people here continue to say that the intelligence community is overreacting. What kind of country does that these types of attacks? This borders an act of war. What if they managed to shut down electricity? So many important systems in our country depend on it. Wasn't there an NHS hospital in the UK that got locked out due to NotPetya? Oh and meddling in the elections. The sanctions are appropriate but personally I would prefer that the intelligence agencies find who was behind it and make sure they can't do this again. Make their computer fans stop and CPUs overheat.