The Case Against EU Cyber Sanctions for the Bundestag Hack
Author(s): Stefan Soesanto
Publisher(s): Lawfare
Publication Year: 2020
After Germany's federal prosecutor issued an arrest warrant for Dmitriy Badin, the Russian hacker behind the 2015 cyberattacks targeting the Bundestag, the German Ministry also announced that Berlin would press the EU Council to impose EU restrictive cyber sanctions on Badin and anyone else involved in the hack. The German move is the first time the EU cyber sanctions regime has been invoked since its creation in mid-May 2019. But is it wise for the EU to use that regime in the current case? CSS' Stefan Soesanto responds in this blog for Lawfare.