European elections 2019: A new mechanism of sanctions against cyber attacks has been approved by the EU.

The "black»Lists and tools available to EU, for its foreign policy

Η The European Union will immediately punish those responsible for cyber-attacks, as governments have agreed on a new mechanism targeting people around the world, freezing their assets and barring them from entering European territory.

The Union has decided to draw up a blacklist to punish those responsible cyber attacks committed by non-EU countries, the Council of Ministers of the Union announced yesterday, Friday.

«Restrictive measures include a travel ban in the EU and the freezing of assets. In addition, EU persons and entities are prohibited from allocating resources to persons and entities included in the listClarifies the announcement.

«The sanctions mechanism will allow the Union of 28 to move faster against malicious cyber attacks that could affect critical infrastructure. The aim is also to break the sense of impunity of the organizers of such attacks, which have financial consequences, sometimes catastrophic, and which "create a risk of conflict. For the first time, the EU will be able to impose sanctions on individuals or entities responsible for cyberattacks or attempted cyber-attacks that provide financial, technical or material support to cyber-attacks or are in any way involved in them.Underlines the EU.

The European Union has compiled many blacklists, tools it has for its foreign policy, as reported by ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ.

Just days before the European Parliament elections on 23-26 May, European officials are on the lookout for attempts to undermine the vote through disinformation campaigns and cyber-attacks.

Several people close to Russian President Vladimir Putin are among the 164 Russians and Ukrainians on the list. EU after the annexation of the Crimean peninsula to the Russian Federation. The penalties are the same as for cybercriminals.

The European Union wants to punish cyber-attacks "which have a significant impact" and which "originate or are committed outside the EU or use infrastructure located outside the EU or committed by persons or entities established or operating outside the EU or carried out with the support of persons or entities operating outside the EU, "the statement said.

«It is a decisive action to prevent future cyber attacks. Our message to governments, regimes and criminal gangs preparing to do so cyber attacks is clear: the international community will take all necessary measures to uphold the rule of law and the rules of the international system that make our societies safeBritish Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt reacted in a statement.

The EU has not named a country, but Europeans have repeatedly condemned attacks by Russia, China, North Korea and Iran.

The Dutch intelligence service announced that in April 2018 it deported four Russian agents who were planning a cyber attack against the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) based in The Hague.

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