Britain and the European Union have accused Russia's FSB of a failed cyberattack that could have left 500,000 Poles without electricity in the depths of winter, and answered with their first joint package of cyber sanctions on Monday. The lists extend well beyond the grid plot, naming malware operators who have already stolen passwords and other sensitive details from at least 2,100 British victims in six months.
The UK designated 24 individuals and entities, including three senior GRU officers, Vyacheslav Stafeyev, Ivan Senin, and Ivan Kasyanenko, accused of directing cyber and hybrid operations, along with GRU Unit 29155's cyber division and IMPULS, a company said to recruit hackers from universities and academies across Russia. The EU imposed a parallel round on nine individuals and four entities. Both carry asset freezes and travel bans, and the round takes Britain's Russia-related designations past 3,400.
