U.S. Treasury announces sanctions targeting three North Korean state-sponsored malicious cyber groups. Lazarus Group, Bluenoroff, and Andariel are controlled by the Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB) Lazarus Group was involved in the destructive WannaCry 2.0 ransomware attack in December 2017, which the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom publicly attributed to North Korea in December. The RGB was designated by OFAC on January 2, 2015 pursuant to E.O. 13687 for being a controlled entity of the Government of North Korea.”]

