{"id":46200,"date":"2026-02-24T20:01:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/the-us-expanded-its-sanctions-list-against-russia-due-to-cybersecurity-threats\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:01:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:01:23","slug":"the-us-expanded-its-sanctions-list-against-russia-due-to-cybersecurity-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/the-us-expanded-its-sanctions-list-against-russia-due-to-cybersecurity-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"The US expanded its sanctions list against Russia due to cybersecurity threats"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US imposed new sanctions against three Russian companies and four individuals due to cybersecurity threats. The restrictions include asset freezes and a ban on transactions with them.<\/p>\n

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The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has officially announced new restrictions on a number of individuals and entities associated with the Russian Federation. The decision is aimed at blocking the activities of structures and specialists whose actions pose a direct threat to international digital security and critical infrastructure. This was reported by UNN.<\/p>\n

Details<\/h2>\n

Three specialized organizations have been added to the updated sanctions list: Advance Security Solutions, Matrix, and Operation Zero. The American agency considers these companies to be involved in the development or facilitation of malicious cyber technologies.<\/p>\n

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The sanctions provide for the freezing of all assets of the specified structures in the United States and a complete ban for American citizens and companies on conducting any financial or technological operations with them.<\/p>\n

Personal sanctions against specialists and managers<\/h2>\n

In addition to organizations, four individuals were directly sanctioned by Washington: Oleg Kucherov, Azizjon Mamashoev, Maryna Vasanovych, and Serhii Zeleniuk. According to the U.S. Treasury Department, these individuals are involved in activities that undermine global network security in the aggressor's interests.<\/p>\n

The implementation of these measures is part of a broader U.S. strategy to curb Russian influence in cyberspace and stop the illegal use of information technologies for warfare and espionage.<\/p>\n

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The US imposed new sanctions against three Russian companies and four individuals due to cybersecurity threats. The restrictions include asset freezes and a ban on transactions with them. The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has officially announced new restrictions on a number of individuals and entities associated with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-46200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}