Kristi Noem Bans Telecommunications Contracts in South Dakota With Six ‘Evil’ Countries

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem banned the state from engaging in telecommunications contracts with six foreign countries she said were “evil.”

The countries listed in Friday’s executive order are China, Iran, North Korea, Russia, Cuba and Venezuela.

“Countries including Russia, China, Iran and North Korea have engaged in increasingly aggressive cyber attacks on United States assets including Iranian financially-motivated ransomware operations, Russian phishing attempts, Chinese targeted extractions of corporate data, cyber attacks on crucial ports since 2013 and the cyber and physical targeting of electric grid stations in Washington, North Carolina and other states in late 2022,” Noem said in her […]

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