Lawmakers call on Treasury to sanction hackers-for-hire
Brief
A bipartisan trio of lawmakers is asking the Treasury Department to sanction three India-based mercenary hack-for-hire groups that have reportedly stolen data from thousands of American citizens and companies.
Democratic Sens. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Rep. Pat Harrigan, R-N. C. , sought in a letter to Secretary Howard Lutnick Wednesday to have the mercenary firms added to the Treasury Department’s Entity List, which would limit their access to American software, cybersecurity tools and cloud infrastructure.
“Several India-based cyber-mercenary groups have spent more than fifteen years conducting targeted espionage against U. S. citizens, businesses and the lawyers representing them,” Wyden, Harrigan and Whitehouse wrote.