The US Ministry of Finance Ministry’s Foreign Affairs Ministry’s Finance Ministry (OTA) has estimated sanctions against Russia based on the Russian, BHP Group Aeza Group service provider to help the subjects threatened with their malicious activities and orientations around the world and worldwide.
Sanctions also apply to its subsidiaries of Aeza International Ltd., British branch of Aeza Group, as well as Aeza Logistic LLC, Cloud Solutions LLC and four people associated with the company –
- Arsenii Aleksandrovich Penzev, CEO and 33% Ownza Group owner
- Yurii Meruzhanovich Bozoyan, CEO and 33% Aeza Group owner
- Vladimir Vyacheslavovich Gasta, the technical director who cooperates closely with Pintsov and Bozoyan
- Igor Anatolyevich Knyazev, 33% of Aeza Group owner, who manages the operations in the absence of Penziva and Bozoon
It is worth noting that Penziv was arrested in In early April 2025 On charges of criminal organization and permission for large -scale drug trafficking by hosting BlackprutThe banned drug market in the dark network. Bozoyan and two more Aeza employees, Maxim Orel and Tatiana Zubov were also detained.
“Cybercriminals continue to rely on BHPh service providers like Aeza Group to ease devastating ransom attacks, steal American technology and sell drugs with a black market,” ” – Note Acting under the secretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence Bradley T. Smith.
“Treasury in close coordination with the UK and our other international partners is still decided to expose critical nodes, infrastructure and persons underlying this criminal ecosystem.”
BHP services were recovery during Actors threatened As you know, they intentionally ignore abuse reports and law enforcement agencies that often work in countries with weak law enforcement or intentionally vague legal standards. This makes them an elastic option for attackers to place malicious infrastructure, including phishing sites and command and control servers (C2) without violations and consequences.
Saint -Pepetarburg, Aeza Group, is accused of renting its services for various ransom and thefts such as Bianlian, Redline, Meduza and Lumma, some of which were used to target US industrial and technology companies and other victims around the world.
Except Pro -Russian influence christened Doppelganger. Another actor threatened that used AEZA services Invalid RabisThe actor of the threat coordinated by Russia, behind the rat with a rom.
Development occurs almost five months after the Treasury sanctioned Another BHP service provider, based on Russia, named Zservers to facilitate ransom attacks such as organized by LockBit.
Last week and Curia too related Russian web hosting and proxy supplier called Biterika to distribute service refusal (Ddos) Attacks on two Russian independent media and Verstska.
These sanctions are part of the broader efforts to dismantle the supply chain, focusing on important stimulants such as malicious hosting, C2 servers and dark web infrastructure. As threatening subjects move tactics, monitoring sanctioned organizations, IP reputation and network reputation, which are resistant to abuse becomes the main for modern threats.
