Overview
- EU measures freeze assets, block EU funding or resources to listed parties, prohibit business with the sanctioned entities, and impose travel bans on the two named individuals.
- Integrity Technology Group’s tools were used by China‑linked Flax Typhoon to compromise more than 65,000 devices across six EU member states between 2022 and 2023.
- Anxun Information Technology (i‑Soon) provided hack‑for‑hire services targeting critical infrastructure and critical state functions and sold classified information, with co‑founders Chen Cheng and Wu Haibo now barred from entering the EU.
- The Iranian firm Emennet Pasargad was cited for the 2023 theft and attempted sale of Charlie Hebdo subscriber data, the hijacking of Paris 2024 advertising billboards to spread disinformation, and the disruption of a Swedish SMS service.
- With these listings, the EU cyber sanctions regime covers 19 individuals and 7 entities, and partners including Australia publicly endorsed the coordinated response.