Washington: The United States on Friday takes a new puncture in the Russian Cybersecurity industry, limiting trade with four information technology companies and two other entities for “aggressive and dangerous” activities – including Digital Spionage – Washington blames the Russian government.
Post the Trade Department said the six entities were approved by the US Ministry of Finance in April, which targets companies in the technology sector that support Russian intelligence services.
Additional them for the black list of the Commerce Department means US companies cannot sell them without licenses, which are rarely given.
The announcement followed the April sanction, which was aimed at punishing Moscow to hacked, disrupting US elections last year, poisoning the criticism of Kremlin Alexei Navalny and other actions allegedly denied the Kremlin.
They came because the United States responded to the digital intrusion drumbeat blamed for spies supported by the Russian government and a series of ransomware outbreaks that were increasingly annoying to blame on Russian cyber criminals.
The entity added to the blacklist is the Aktsisionernoe Obshchaestvo AST; Aktsissionernoe obshchestvo pasit; Aktsionernoe Obshchestvo Pozitiv Teknolodzhiz, also known as Positive JSC Technologies; Federal state autonomy institution of innovative military technopolis era; Institute of Scientific Research State Autonomy Special Federal Institute of Devices and Automation Security Computing (SVA); And obshchestvo osogranichenno otvetstvennostyu neobit.
The era is the research center and technology park operated by the Russian Ministry of Defense; PASIT is an IT company that conducts research and development to support the operation of the Malerious service of Russian foreign service services; SVA is a Russian state-owned institution which also supports evil cyber operations; And the IT security company based in Neobit Russia, AST and positive technology has clients who cover the Russian government, according to the United States.
Positive technology said the announcement of the Ministry of Commerce did not have new information and that the company moved in an “ethical exchange of information with a professional information security community” and was never involved with US infrastructure attacks.
Other entities either did not immediately respond to a comment request or could not be contacted.
Restrictions on the Russian technology industry have worked for months.
On the same day with treasury sanctions announced, then-assistant prosecutor General John Dins told reporters that officials were in the process of doing dozens of Russian companies for the possibility of reference to the Ministry of Commerce.
Demers said investigators would see “known connections between certain companies and Russian intelligence services” when they evaluate whether a company is a risk.
Non-Russian companies that have office operations in Russia will also be examined, he said.
The United States added an entity on the black list of trade departments which he said posed on the risk of national security or the interests of US foreign policy.