Sanctions power Russia to use computer chips from fridges, dishwashers in military services equipment, Gina Raimundo tells Senate

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U.S.-led sanctions are forcing Russia to use computer chips from dishwashers and fridges in some armed forces gear, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo stated Wednesday.

“We have reviews from Ukrainians that when they locate Russian army machines on the floor, it’s stuffed with semiconductors that they took out of dishwashers and fridges,” Raimondo told a Senate hearing, noting that she lately fulfilled with Ukraine’s primary minister.

U.S. technologies exports to Russia have fallen by approximately 70 percent considering that sanctions commenced in late February, according to Raimondo, whose division oversees the export controls that type a major part of the sanctions bundle. Three dozen other countries have adopted very similar export bans, which also apply to Belarus.

“Our tactic was to deny Russia technological know-how — technological innovation that would cripple their ability to proceed a army operation. And that is accurately what we are accomplishing,” she reported in a reaction to a problem from Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) about the influence of the export controls.

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The semiconductor anecdote arrived from Ukrainian officials, who instructed the secretary that when they opened up captured Russian tanks, they found areas from refrigerators and professional and industrial equipment that show up to make up for other unavailable components, Commerce Department spokeswoman Robyn Patterson explained.

The variety of U.S. shipments to Russia like merchandise subject matter to the new regulations — semiconductors, telecommunications products, lasers, avionics and maritime technological innovation — has lowered 85 % and their worth has lowered 97 percent, as opposed with the exact same time period in 2021, Patterson mentioned.

In her Senate remarks, Raimondo also pointed to recent reviews that two Russian tank manufacturers have experienced to idle creation simply because of a absence of factors. The White House, too, has beforehand highlighted all those reviews, stating Uralvagonzavod and Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant have halted creation.

Computer chips, also recognised as semiconductors, are the brains that run most contemporary electronics, from appliances to fighter jets. Russia manufactures few of its possess chips, historically relying on imports from Asian and Western corporations.

The world’s largest personal computer chip organizations commenced reducing off deliveries to Russia in late February, immediately after the U.S.-led constraints kicked in.

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The United States and other Western nations now had controlled product sales to Russia of chips and other electronic factors specifically designed for navy use. These profits needed a government license to continue even right before Russia’s modern invasion of Ukraine.

The new principles tightened these limits and also blocked the sale of most twin-use chips, which have both military and industrial programs, to nonmilitary consumers in Russia, which include individuals in large-tech industries.

The Biden administration mentioned the ban would minimize off a lot more than 50 % of Russia’s large-tech imports and kneecap the country’s skill to diversify its financial state and

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FBI raids Chinese sales equipment supplier: report

U.S. federal investigators raided the Florida offices of a Chinese point-of-sale device provider that reportedly facilitated cyberattacks on American and European entities. 

This week FBI agents descended on the Jacksonville offices of Shenzhen, China-based PAX Technology, which provides point of sale (POS) hardware and software to companies worldwide. 

POS systems are used everywhere from big box retailers to gas stations to coffee shops for processing customer payments.   

The seal of the Federal Bureau of Investigation hangs on the outside of the bureau’s Edgar J. Hoover Building in May 2017 in Washington, D.C. Recently, the FBI raided the Florida offices of a Chinese sales equipment supplier. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images / Getty Images)

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The news was originally reported by WOKV, a local Jacksonville news outlet.  

Cybersecurity news site KrebsOnSecurity said the raid is tied to reports that PAX’s systems may have been involved in cyberattacks on U.S. and EU organizations. 

Recently, the FBI raided the offices of a Chinese sales equipment supplier, PAX Technology, which a cybersecurity news site reported may have been involved in cyberattacks.  (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images / Getty Images)

The FBI began investigating PAX “after a major U.S. payment processor started asking questions about unusual network packets originating from the company’s payment terminals,” KrebsOnSecurity said, based on information from a “trusted source.” 

“The payment processor found that the PAX terminals were being used both as a malware ‘dropper’ — a repository for malicious files — and as ‘command-and-control’ locations for staging attacks and collecting information,” the cybersecurity news site said. 

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The FBI Jacksonville Office provided a statement about the recent raid of the Florida offices of a Chinese sales equipment supplier. (Google Maps)

The FBI Jacksonville office provided the following statement to FOX Business: “The FBI Jacksonville Division, in partnership with Homeland Security Investigations, Customs and Border Protection, Department of Commerce, and Naval Criminal Investigative Services, and with the support of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, executed a court-authorized search in furtherance of a federal investigation (Tuesday, 10/26). The investigation remains active and ongoing and no additional information can be confirmed at this time.”

The FBI is providing no more information other than saying it conducted searches of three facilities in Jacksonville, according to Amanda Videll, public affairs officer at FBI Jacksonville. 

“On Tuesday, October 26, 2021, PAX Technology, Inc. in the United States was subject to an unexpected visit from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other government agencies relating to an apparent investigation,” a PAX Technology spokesperson told FOX Business. 

“PAX Technology is not aware of any illegal conduct by it or its employees and is in the process of engaging counsel to assist in learning more about the events that led to the investigation,” the spokesperson said, adding that the company is “aware of media reports regarding the security of PAX Technology’s devices and services [and] PAX Technology

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