Russian cybercrime network targeted for sanctions across US, UK and Australia

The U.S., U.K. and Australia have sanctioned a Russian web-hosting services provider and two Russian men who administer the service in support of Russian ransomware syndicate LockBit. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and its U.K. and Australian counterparts sanctioned Zservers, a Russia-based bulletproof hosting services provider, which is a web-hosting service that ignores or evades law enforcement requests. Two Russian nationals serving as Zservers operators also were sanctioned. The Treasury Department alleges that Zservers provided LockBit access to specialized servers designed to resist law enforcement actions.