Sept. 10 updates to the U.S. Treasury’s sanctions embody Russian nationals who allegedly labored to intrude in U.S. elections. The updates particularly goal a laundry checklist of crypto pockets addresses related to these accused hackers.
The brand new specifically designated nationals embody St. Petersburg residents Anton Nikolaeyvich Andreyev and Artem Mikhaylovich Lifshits and addresses related to these two together with Bitcoin, Litecoin, ZCash, Sprint and Ether.
This isn’t the primary time that the Treasury’s Workplace of Overseas Asset Management has focused crypto addresses. In March, OFAC added two Chinese nationals who aided North Korea’s hacking program in laundering its ill-gotten positive aspects.
That is additionally not the primary time that U.S. authorities have said that Russian intelligence used crypto to fund interference within the 2016 presidential election. These are, nonetheless, the primary OFAC sanctions to call pockets addresses for such a variety of currencies concerned in Russian election interference.
The brand new measures come because the U.S. presidential election is barely 2 months away.
