Kiev imposed sanctions against the creators of the NotPetya virus “connected with Russia” The

National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine decided to punish those involved in the creation of the NotPetya computer virus. All of them are already defendants in criminal cases in the United States.and included in the sanctions lists there

The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine has decided to apply sanctions against four legal entities and six individuals "affiliated with the special services of the Russian Federation," Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov said.

“These are legal entities and individuals directly involved in the development of components of the NotPetya virus. They carried out its administration, moderation, organized cyber attacks on the critical infrastructure of our country,” Danilov said.

These individuals have already been included in the US sanctions list and are already defendants in criminal cases in the US.

The United States accused six Russians of a cyberattack on the Olympics in Korea Society

Danilov did not name the names of the persons on the list; at the time of writing this material, the decision of the National Security and Defense Council was not published. In October 2020, the US authorities accused six Russians of hacker attacks - these are Yuri Sergeyevich Andrienko, Sergey Vladimirovich Detistov, Pavel Vladimirovich Frolov, Anatoly Sergeyevich Kovalev, Artem Valerievich Ochichenko and Petr Nikolaevich Pliskin. All of them were accused of attacks using the NotPetya virus.

According to the US Department of Justice, the Russians are involved in attacks on the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the 2017 French presidential election, on Ukrainian energy companies, and in attempts to interfere with the investigation into the poisoning of former GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in British Salisbury in 2018 and the case of the possible poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in 2020.

The European Union imposed sanctions against Russians for cyberattacks Politics

In July 2020, the European Union imposed sanctions against four Russians on suspicion of involvement in cyber attacks. Aleksey Minin, Aleksey Morenets, Evgeny Serebryakov and Oleg Sotnikov fell under the restrictions. The European Union also imposed sanctions on the Main Center for Special Technologies (GTSST) of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces (formerly the GRU), follows from the document.

They are suspected of involvement in cyber attacks using WannaCry and NotPetya viruses, which were aimed at "undermining the integrity" of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). In particular, four Russians, who are named in the publication as employees of the GRU, tried to hack into the OPCW's Wi-Fi network. Prior to that, all of them were also on the US CAATSA sanctions list.

The GCST was then accused of collaborating with the Sandworm Team hacker group, “which is behind the attack on the Ukrainian energy system,” also carried out using the NotPetya virus.