The three countries have approved Russia -based Hosting Service Zasarver to offer services to the notorious Cryptocurrency Rainsmware Gang Lockbit.
1 February 11 Press release The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, Australia’s Foreign Affairs and Trade Department, and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office revealed a joint rift, with bulletproof hosting service provider Jaswars and its UK-based front company, xhost Internet solutions LP was approved. ,
Restrictions include asset freeze, travel ban and restrictions that cut the zorvar from the global financial system. This means that in the approved courts, any property or funds tied to them are blocked, and financial institutions are punished if they join them.
For unknown, bulletproof hosting service providers offer infrastructure designed to mast the provider of identity, locations and online activities to mold the cyber criminal from law enforcement. Bradley t. According to Smith, the under secretary of Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, bad actors rely on these services, for orchestrate attacks on “US and International Critical Infrastructure”.
The move also blacklisted Jasaravars’s administrators Alexander Igorvich Mishin and Alexandra Sergeyavich Bolshkov, as well as tied to the operation of the lockbit with four other persons, away from global financial systems and banned the journey.
ZSERVERS serves customers beyond lockbit
Officials claim that Mishin and Bolshkov, as administrators of Jasrwar, provided bulletproof hosting to cyber criminals and re -handed them over the infrastructure to lockbit colleagues to help them find out. Mishin also directed the cryptocurrency transactions associated with ransomware operations, including payments for the services of the gearm used by several ransomware groups.
A different Report From blockchain analytics firm Channelis, OC has added a crypto wallet associated with Mishin and three other wallets are tied to Zasar in their specially designated national list.
The report said Jasarawar was catering for a comprehensive customer base in the Cybercrime World. Channelis discovered at least $ 5.2 million in on-chain activity associated with Jasaravars, revealing that several rangesware colleagues sent funds for service.
Channelis also noted that Jasaravars cash through the approved Russian exchange guarantex and other high-risk platforms, with no KYC enforcement.
As previously covered by crypto.news, the lockbit ransomware group, which was first seen in 2019, has been behind some of the largest hacks and some of the Crypto Extortion cases, including Bangkok Airways, Excellent and Canadian government services Attack on attacks.
In February 2024, a global law enforcement alliance – including FBI, NCA, Europeol and others – was seized by seizing its command and control system and dismantled the operational network of the lockbit. In December of that year, the US Justice Department accused a Russian citizen for working as a developer for the ransomware group.
