{"id":17347,"date":"2020-10-25T15:21:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T10:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=17347"},"modified":"2020-10-25T15:21:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T10:21:31","slug":"us-under-cyber-attacks-impose-sanctions-on-russian-state-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/17347","title":{"rendered":"US under cyber attacks impose sanctions on Russian-state center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The US sanctioned Friday what it called a Russian government &#8220;research institution&#8221; that it said is tied to &#8220;destructive and life-threatening&#8221; malware.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement Washington is levying sanctions against the State Research Center of the Russian Federation FGUP Central Scientific Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics (TsNIIKhM), which designed the Triton malware.<\/p>\n<p>The malicious software is also known as TRISIS and HatMan, and &#8220;was designed to specifically target and manipulate industrial safety systems,&#8221; according to the State Department.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Such systems provide for the safe emergency shutdown of industrial processes at critical infrastructure facilities in order to protect human life,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The malware was used in attack on a Middle East-based petrochemical plant in 2017, and was used to survey US facilities, Pompeo charged.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While the Russian government claims to be a responsible actor in cyberspace, it continues to engage in dangerous and malicious activities that threaten the security of the United States and our allies,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We will not relent in our efforts to respond to these activities using all the tools at our disposal, including sanctions.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON The US sanctioned Friday what it called a Russian government &#8220;research institution&#8221; that it said is tied to &#8220;destructive and life-threatening&#8221; malware. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement Washington is levying sanctions against the State Research Center of the Russian Federation FGUP Central Scientific Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics (TsNIIKhM), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1472,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17349,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17347\/revisions\/17349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}