THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release December 29 2016 EXECUTIVE ORDER - - - - - - - TAKING ADDITIONAL STEPS TO ADDRESS THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO SIGNIFICANT MALICIOUS CYBER-ENABLED ACTIVITIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act 50 U S C 1701 et seq IEEPA the National Emergencies Act 50 U S C 1601 et seq NEA and section 301 of title 3 United States Code I BARACK OBAMA President of the United States of America in order to take additional steps to deal with the national emergency with respect to significant malicious cyber-enabled activities declared in Executive Order 13694 of April 1 2015 and in view of the increasing use of such activities to undermine democratic processes or institutions hereby order Section 1 Section 1 a of Executive Order 13694 is hereby amended to read as follows Section 1 a All property and interests in property that are in the United States that hereafter come within the United States or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of any United States person of the following persons are blocked and may not be transferred paid exported withdrawn or otherwise dealt in i the persons listed in the Annex to this order ii any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of State to be responsible for or complicit in or to have engaged in directly or indirectly cyberenabled activities originating from or directed by persons located in whole or in substantial part outside the United States that are reasonably likely to result in or have materially contributed to a significant threat to the national security foreign policy or economic health or financial stability of the United States and that have the purpose or effect of A harming or otherwise significantly compromising the provision of services by a computer or network of computers that support one or more entities in a critical infrastructure sector B significantly compromising the provision of services by one or more entities in a critical infrastructure sector 2 C causing a significant disruption to the availability of a computer or network of computers D causing a significant misappropriation of funds or economic resources trade secrets personal identifiers or financial information for commercial or competitive advantage or private financial gain or E tampering with altering or causing a misappropriation of information with the purpose or effect of interfering with or undermining election processes or institutions and iii any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of State A to be responsible for or complicit in or to have engaged in the receipt or use for commercial or competitive advantage or private financial gain or by a commercial entity outside the United States of trade secrets misappropriated through cyber-enabled means knowing they have been misappropriated where the misappropriation of such trade secrets is reasonably likely to result in or has materially contributed to a significant threat to the national security foreign policy or economy of the United States B to have materially assisted sponsored or provided financial material or technological support for or goods or services to or in support of any activity described in subsections a ii or a iii A of this section or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order C to be owned or controlled by or purported to act for or on behalf of indirectly any person whose property property are blocked pursuant to this to have acted or directly or and interests in order or D to have attempted to engage in any of the activities described in subsections a ii and a iii A - C of this section Sec 2 Executive Order 13694 is further amended by adding as an Annex to Executive Order 13694 the Annex to this order Sec 3 Executive Order 13694 is further amended by redesignating section 10 as section 11 and adding a new section 10 to read as follows Sec 10 The Secretary of the Treasury in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of State is hereby authorized to determine that circumstances no longer warrant the blocking of the property and interests in property of a person listed in the Annex to this order and to take necessary action to give effect to that determination Sec 4 This order is not intended to and does not create any right or benefit substantive or procedural 3 enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States its departments agencies or entities its officers employees or agents or any other person Sec 5 This order is effective at 12 01 a m eastern standard time on December 29 2016 BARACK OBAMA THE WHITE HOUSE December 28 2016 # # # Annex Entities 1 Main Intelligence Directorate a k a Glavnoe Razvedyvatel’noe Upravlenie a k a GRU Moscow Russia 2 Federal Security Service a k a Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti a k a FSB Moscow Russia 3 Special Technology Center a k a STLC Ltd Special Technology Center St Petersburg St Petersburg Russia 4 Zorsecurity a k a Esage Lab Moscow Russia 5 Autonomous Noncommercial Organization “Professional Association of Designers of Data Processing Systems” a k a ANO PO KSI Moscow Russia Individuals 1 Igor Valentinovich Korobov DOB Aug 3 1956 nationality Russian 2 Sergey Aleksandrovich Gizunov DOB Oct 18 1956 nationality Russian 3 Igor Olegovich Kostyukov DOB Feb 21 1961 nationality Russian 4 Vladimir Stepanovich Alexseyev DOB Apr 24 1961 nationality Russian