Ravie Lakshmanan reports:
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has levied sanctions against Russia-based bulletproof hosting (BPH) service provider Aeza Group to assist threat actors in their malicious activities and targeting victims in the country and across the world.
The sanctions also extend to its subsidiaries Aeza International Ltd., the U.K. branch of Aeza Group, as well as Aeza Logistic LLC, Cloud Solutions LLC, and four individuals linked to the company –
- Arsenii Aleksandrovich Penzev, CEO and 33% owner of Aeza Group
- Yurii Meruzhanovich Bozoyan, general director and 33% owner of Aeza Group
- Vladimir Vyacheslavovich Gast, technical director who works closely with Penzev and Bozoyan
- Igor Anatolyevich Knyazev, 33% owner of Aeza Group who manages the operations in the absence of Penzev and Bozoyan
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