{"id":365036,"date":"2018-06-11T19:37:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T18:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-slaps-sanctions-on-russia-over-hacking-ops\/"},"modified":"2018-06-11T19:37:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T18:37:54","slug":"presstv-us-slaps-sanctions-on-russia-over-hacking-ops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-slaps-sanctions-on-russia-over-hacking-ops\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US slaps sanctions on Russia over hacking ops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The United States has announced a raft of new sanctions targeting several Russian entities and individuals over their allege contribution to hacking schemes against Washington and its allies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin alleged in a statement Monday that those affected in the new sanctions had worked with the Russian military and intelligence services to help cyber attacks against the US and other states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe entities designated today have directly contributed to improving Russia\u2019s cyber and underwater capabilities through their work with the FSB (Russia\u2019s security service) and therefore jeopardize the safety and security of the United States and our allies,\u201d said Mnuchin.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the sanctions were meant to prevent further \u201cmalicious\u201d actions by Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States is engaged in an ongoing effort to counter malicious actors working at the behest of the Russian Federation and its military and intelligence&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2018\/06\/11\/564695\/US-Russia-sanctions-cyber-attacks\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has announced a raft of new sanctions targeting several Russian entities and individuals over their allege contribution to hacking schemes against Washington and its allies. US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin alleged in a statement Monday that those affected in the new sanctions had worked with the Russian military and intelligence services to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-365036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}