Trump sanctions entities for cyberattacks against US banks

Published September 14, 2017 8:03pm ET



President Trump’s team on Thurdsay targeted a new group of people and companies inside and outside of Iran that have supported the regime’s aggression against the United States.

Treasury Department officials led the crackdown, which chiefly targets enablers of Iran’s ballistic missile and shuttling of weapons into Syria. The sanctions, which freeze assets of 11 companies and people and bar them from commerce with Americans, also targeted the networks that launched cyberattacks against U.S. banks and stock markets from 2011 to 2013.

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