Sanctions are one of the tools Western governments use when they want to hit back at state-sponsored cyber threat actors. But do they actually work? That’s the question a group of current and former cybersecurity officials, analysts, and researchers tackled at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a London-based think tank focused on defense and security. Their findings suggest that while sanctions won’t stop cyberattacks altogether, they can make them slower, riskier, and more expensive … More
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