The EU has stopped sanctioning Russian hackers and started sanctioning the machine that makes them

The European Union and the United Kingdom have jointly imposed cyber sanctions on Russia for the first time, targeting nine individuals and four entities by the EU and 24 by the UK. They publicly attributed the Turla espionage group and a December cyberattack on Poland's energy grid to Russia's FSB Centre 16, marking a shift towards sanctioning the broader ecosystem of Russian cyber operations rather than isolated groups. This approach blurs the line between state hackers and criminal actors, as