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significant activities undermining cybersecurity

Defined in 2 places of the United States Code.

In this section, the term "significant activities undermining cybersecurity" includes—

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  • 2017–202622 U.S.C. § 9524Foreign Relations and Intercourse · Imposition of sanctions with respect to activities of the Russian Federation undermining cybersecurity · in this section

In this section, the term “significant activities undermining cybersecurity” includes—

(1) significant efforts—

(A) to deny access to or degrade, disrupt, or destroy an information and communications technology system or network; or

(B) to exfiltrate, degrade, corrupt, destroy, or release information from such a system or network without authorization for purposes of—

(i) conducting influence operations; or

(ii) causing a significant misappropriation of funds, economic resources, trade secrets, personal identifications, or financial information for commercial or competitive advantage or private financial gain;

(2) significant destructive malware attacks; and

(3) significant denial of service activities.

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  • 2026–present22 U.S.C. § 9524Foreign Relations and Intercourse · Imposition of sanctions with respect to activities of the Russian Federation undermining cybersecurity · in this section

The term “significant activities undermining cybersecurity” includes—

(A) significant efforts to—

(i) deny access to or degrade, disrupt, or destroy an information and communications technology system or network; or

(ii) exfiltrate information from such a system or network without authorization;

(B) significant destructive malware attacks;

(C) significant denial of service activities; and

(D) such other significant activities described in regulations promulgated to implement section 9214 of this title.

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