Foreign minister Penny Wong says it will be a criminal offence to provide assets to Russian Aleksandr Gennadievich Ermakov after he was linked by authorities to the ‘compromise of the Medibank Private network’ in 2022. Defence minister Richard Marles says Wong’s decision to use Australia’s cyber sanction laws against Ermakov for his alleged role in the Medibank breach is a ‘hugely significant and unprecedented step’ and sends a message to cyber criminals that Australia ‘means business’
Australia sanctions Russian citizen Aleksandr Ermakov over 2022 Medibank cyber-attack
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