US and Allies Sanction Russian Bulletproof Hosting Service Providers

The US, Australia, and the UK on Wednesday announced sanctions against two Russian bulletproof hosting (BPH) service providers and their sister entities and leadership members.

The US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned Media Land, a Russian company that has allegedly supported ransomware groups such as Lockbit, BlackSuit, and Play.

The BPH service provider, OFAC says, has also supported criminal marketplaces, and has provided infrastructure for multiple distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks targeting US critical infrastructure and other organizations.

In conjunction with Media Land, threat actors have been using infrastructure provided by its sister company ML Cloud for similar cybercriminal activities, OFAC says.

The office also sanctioned Media Land subsidiaries Media Land Technology (MLT) and Data Center Kirishi (DC Kirishi), its general director Aleksandr Volosovik, Kirill Zatolokin, a Media Land employee, and Yulia Pankova, who has assisted Volosovik with legal issues and has handled his finances ...