The Office of Foreign Assets Control announced the following last week.
- OFAC Updates Sanctions List with ICC designation: OFAC on Feb. 13 announced the addition of Karim Asad Ahmad Khan, a United Kingdom national to the sanctions list pursuant to Executive Order 14203 Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court. President Trump designated Khan for issuing arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Former Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes in Gaza. Karim Khan is a British lawyer who has served as prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Read more.
Cyber-related Sanctions
- U.S., U.K. and Australia Sanction Russia-based BPH Services Provider: the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the United Kingdom’s Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office are jointly designating Zservers, a Russia-based bulletproof hosting (BPH) services provider, for its role in supporting LockBit ransomware attacks. LockBit, a Russia-based ransomware group best known for its ransomware variant of the same name, is one of the most deployed ransomware variants and was responsible for the November 2023 attack against the Industrial Commercial Bank of China U.S. broker-dealer. BPH service providers sell access to specialized servers and other computer infrastructure designed to evade detection and defy law enforcement attempts to disrupt these malicious activities. OFAC is also designating two Russian nationals—Alexander Igorevich Mishin and Aleksandr Sergeyevich Bolshakov—key administrators of Zservers and have enabled ransomware attacks and other criminal activity. Read more.
