Lawmakers call on Treasury to sanction hackers-for-hire

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has asked the Treasury Department to place three India-based mercenary hack-for-hire firms — Sunkissed Organic Farms (formerly Appin), BellTroX, and CyberRoot — on the Entity List for their alleged role in targeted espionage and data theft from thousands of American citizens and companies; the letter cites investigative and criminal probes, alleged efforts to censor reporting, and possible ties to the Qatari government.