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Abstract
Current article focuses on the legal assessment and the possibility to use sanctions by the UN Security Council as well as states and regional organisations unilaterally in response to the malicious activity in cyberarea. The article identifies the main situations when sanctions were introduced with reference to malicious cyberactivity such as: attacks over critical infrastructure; attacks which can be qualified as an armed attack; dissemination of hostile propaganda or malicious information; cybercrimes; undermining state security through cybermeans, and presents legal qualification on the use of sanctions from the international law point view.