Overview

• OFAC designated Russia’s Aeza Group alongside UK-based Aeza International Ltd. and its Russian subsidiaries, Aeza Logistic LLC and Cloud Solutions LLC, freezing U.S. assets and blocking transactions
• Four executives—CEO Arsenii Penzev, General Director Yurii Bozoyan, Technical Director Vladimir Gast and part-owner Igor Knyazev—were personally sanctioned
• The action includes a cryptocurrency address tied to over $350,000 in illicit funds identified by blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs Treasury officials said Aeza’s bulletproof hosting supported BianLian ransomware, RedLine, Medusa and Lumma infostealers and the BlackSprut darknet drug marketplace
• The sanctions build on February designations of ZServers and Xhost and reflect intensified U.S. collaboration with the UK to disrupt cybercrime infrastructure