The development comes a week after the UK and the Netherlands claimed that Russia's military intelligence unit, GRU, was behind a wave of cyberattacks, including on the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons' (OPCW) headquarters in The Hague. Moscow has flatly rejected the allegations as “big fantasies” and “spy mania.”
Ahead of an upcoming summit of European leaders, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom have sent a memo to EU member-states, urging to push the bloc to update its sanctions regime to include hacker attacks, Bloomberg reported.
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The initiative followed accusations against Russian and Chinese nationals, who allegedly attempted to conduct cyberattacks on a number of international institutions in Europe and the United States.
“We urgently need to implement a similar regime to address malicious cyber activity. The pace of events has accelerated considerably,” making “the introduction of such a regime a pressing priority,” they wrote in the memo, obtained by Bloomberg.
According to the media outlet, a group of countries, including Estonia, Lithuania, Finland and Romania, is seeking to introduce a sanctions regime that would target individuals and entities responsible for cyberattacks.
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