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US Imposes Sanctions on Belarusian Man in Ransomware Case
The US Treasury and State Department have sanctioned Belarusian Yegeniy Silayev and Ukrainian Dmytro Rashevskyi, along with VPN service 1VPNS, for supplying ransomware groups with crypter tools and infrastructure to evade detection. The 1VPNS infrastructure was dismantled in May 2026 with FBI support after enabling attacks costing billions in losses to US critical infrastructure.
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The Wire takeaway
If you sell infrastructure services—hosting, VPN, DNS, proxies—you now have explicit US regulatory notice that supplying ransomware groups, even passively, triggers OFAC sanctions. Your payment processors, cloud hosts, and domain registrars will start asking harder questions about your customer vetting.
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Topics: Cybersecurity · ransomware · sanctions · ofac · vpn-services · infrastructure-crime