US charges Russian 'bulletproof' web hosts over cyberattacks that net…

The US has unsealed a 2024 indictment charging three Russian nationals and their two web hosting companies (Media Land and ML.Cloud) with providing infrastructure to ransomware gangs including LockBit, BlackSuit, and Play, resulting in $62M in damages to US businesses. If you're building security tools to hunt ransomware gangs or their infrastructure, the US just proved it will indict and sanction the hosters who knowingly rent to them. That removes plausible deniability from the hosting supply chain and forces you to choose: either you're part of the solution or you're exposed.