President Biden issues sanctions against Russia for cyberattacks, election interference
U.S. President Biden has signed a new executive order imposing new sanctions on Russia for actions by "its government and intelligence services against the U.S. sovereignty and interests." The administration formally named Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), also known as APT 29, Cozy Bear, and The Dukes, as the perpetrator of the broad-scope cyber espionage campaign that exploited the SolarWinds Orion platform and other information technology infrastructures.
The SVR's compromise of the SolarWinds software supply chain gave it the ability to spy or potentially disrupt more than 16,000 computer systems worldwide, the administration claimed. The scope of this compromise is a national security and public safety concern and places an undue burden on the mostly private sector victims "who must bear the unusually high cost of mitigating this incident."