; (B) on March 24, 2016, 7 Iranians working for entities affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps were indicted for conducting distributed denial of service attacks against the financial sector in the United States from 2012 to 2013; and (C) on May 19, 2014, 5 Chinese military hackers were charged for hacking United States companies in the nuclear power, metals, and solar products industries, and engaging in economic espionage. (6) In May 2017, North Korea released the WannaCry pseudo-ransomware, which posed a significant risk to the economy, national security, and the citizens of the United States and the world, as it resulted in the infection of more than 300,000 computer systems in more than 150 countries, including in the healthcare sector of the United Kingdom, demonstrating the global reach and cost of cyber-enabled malicious activity. (7) In June 2017, Russia carried out the most destructive cyber-enabled operation in history, releasing the NotPetya malware that caused billions of dollars’ worth of damage within Ukraine and across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. (8) In May 2018, the Department of State, pursuant to section 3(b) of Executive Order 13800 ( 6 U.S.C. 1501 note prec.