President Biden extended Executive Order 13694 regarding cyberattack sanctions

President Joe Biden has extended Executive Order 13694, issued in 2015 by President Obama, regarding sanctions issued in response to cyberattacks.

President Joe Biden this week has extended Executive Order 13694 regarding sanctions issued in response to cyberattacks.

Executive Order 13694 was issued by President Barack Obama in 2015, it allows the government to block the property of certain persons engaging in significant malicious cyber-enabled activities.

US President Trump extents the same Executive Order in 2017, and later in 2018, 2019 and 2020.

On Monday, President Joe Biden sent a letter to the House of Representatives and the Senate, which proposes the same text of the letters sent by Trump during its administration.

“Significant malicious cyber-enabled activities originating from, or directed by persons located, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States. Therefore, I have determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13694 with respect to significant malicious cyber-enabled activities,” reads President Biden’s letter.

The letter states that the national emergency declared in Executive Order of April 1, 2015, with respect to significant malicious cyber enabled activities will be in effect beyond April 1, 2021.

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Pierluigi Paganini

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.