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The U.S. sanctioned five Russian entities and three Russian individuals on Monday under the authority of an Obama-era executive order on sanctioning those “engaging in significant malicious cyber-enabled activities.” Officials are targeting companies and individuals that they say worked with Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the country’s chief intelligence agency, for offensive hacking capabilities. Some of the companies have offices in the U.S. The chief target of the sanctions is Digital Security, a Russia-based cybersecurity company that Treasury says “worked on a project that would increase Russia’s offensive cyber capabilities for the Russian Intelligence Services, to include the FSB.” Two other cybersecurity companies, ERPScan and Embedi, were sanctioned, as well as subsidiaries of Digital Security. Both of those companies have addresses in or around California’s Silicon Valley. None of the companies answered requests for comment. “The United States is engaged in an ongoing effort to counter malicious actors working at the behest of the Russian […]

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