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2025: US imposes sanctions on ML Cloud

On November 19, 2025, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) as part Ministries of Finance USA announced the expansion of sanctions on. As Russia part of measures to combat cybercrime and the Law on Countering America's Adversaries through Sanctions (CAATSA), IT ML Cloud, among others, is blacklisted.

ML Cloud provides customers with cloud solutions and IT infrastructure to grow their business. ML Cloud data centers are located in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as in other Russian regions. In addition, the company is working to launch the first immersion-cooled data center in Russia. It is also planned to expand the geography of the presence with the coverage of Asian countries. ML Cloud sites are Tier III certified, ensuring 99.982% server uptime and high hardware and network infrastructure reliability. Data centers are combined by VLAN technology at speeds up to 40 Gb/s. Customers are provided with virtual and dedicated servers, GPU-based systems, and 1C servers.

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OFAC said in a release that ML Cloud is a subsidiary of Media Land. The latter, according to the American authorities, provides the services of the so-called "Bulletproof hosting Hosting": such services ignore complaints about content, allowing them to post on servers any type of sites, including illegal, malicious or phishing pages.

According to OFAC, the Media Land infrastructure was used in numerous DDoS attacks on companies and critical US resources. In addition, it is alleged that Media Land provides services to criminal marketplaces and hackers involved in ransomware. At the same time, ML Cloud infrastructures are allegedly "often used in conjunction with Media Land."^[1]

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