US, UK, Australia sanction Lockbit gang’s hosting provider

US, UK, Australia sanction Lockbit gang’s hosting provider ‘Bulletproof’ hosts partly dodged the last attack of this sort Cybercrime fighters in the US, UK, and Australia have imposed sanctions on several Russia-linked entities they claim provide hosting services to ransomware gangs Lockbit, BlackSuit, and Play.

The sanctions target an organization called “Media Land,” an entity that the US Department of Treasury describes as a provider of hosting services to “criminal marketplaces and ransomware actors” and which allowed its infrastructure to be used for “multiple distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against U.S. victim companies and critical infrastructure.”

Australia’s Federal Police added “malware infections, and scams” to Media Land’s rap sheet, while the UK’s National Crime Agency accused the group of enabling phishing attacks.

The three nations hope that sanctions will impact Media Land’s ability to facilitate those attacks, by forbidding their citizens and banks from working ...