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Hubris May Have Contributed to Downfall of Ransomware Kingpin LockBit - For all its vaunted success, the LockBit ransomware operation appears to have already been beset by problems when an international law enforcement effort led by the UK's National Crime Agency shut it down this week. Though it's likely that the dozens ...
1 year ago Darkreading.com LockBit Ragnar Locker

U.S. Joins U.K. to Seize LockBit Site, Disrupt Massive Ransomware Variant - The U.S. Department of Justice has partnered with the United Kingdom and international law enforcement partners in London today to announce the disruption of the LockBit ransomware group. The LockBit ransomware group is one of the most active ...
1 year ago Americansecuritytoday.com LockBit

Feds Seize LockBit Ransomware Websites, Offer Decryption Tools, Troll Affiliates - U.S. and U.K. authorities have seized the darknet websites run by LockBit, a prolific and destructive ransomware group that has claimed more than 2,000 victims worldwide and extorted over $120 million in payments. Instead of listing data stolen from ...
1 year ago Krebsonsecurity.com LockBit

LockBit Ransomware Targets German Energy Agency Dena - Dena, the reputed German Energy Agency, is said to have fallen victim to the notorious LockBit ransomware group. The Dena cyberattack was revealed through a post on the threat actor's dark web platform, where they disclose data breach incidents and ...
1 year ago Heimdalsecurity.com LockBit

Police arrest four suspects linked to LockBit ransomware gang - Previous arrests of Lockbit ransomware actors (some of them already charged for various offenses) include Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev (aka Wazawaka) in May 2023, Artur Sungatov and Ivan Gennadievich Kondratiev (aka Bassterlord) in February 2024, and ...
5 months ago Bleepingcomputer.com LockBit

LockBit attacks continue via ConnectWise ScreenConnect flaws - Exploitation of two critical ConnectWise vulnerabilities continues to mount, with many attacks attributed to ransomware gangs such as LockBit. Last month, ConnectWise disclosed an authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-1708, that ...
1 year ago Techtarget.com CVE-2024-1708 CVE-2024-1709 LockBit

Copycat Criminals mimicking Lockbit gang in northern Europe - Recent reports of Lockbit locker-based attacks against North European SMBs indicate that local crooks started using Lockbit locker variants. During the past months, the Lockbit gang reached very high popularity in the underground ecosystem. The ...
2 years ago Securityaffairs.com LockBit

LockBit Ransomware Gang's Website Shut Down - The U.K. National Crime Agency's Cyber Division, the FBI and international partners have cut off ransomware threat actors' access to LockBit's website, which has been used as a large ransomware-as-a-service storefront. According to CISA, LockBit was ...
1 year ago Techrepublic.com LockBit

LockBit claim about hacking U.S. Federal Reserve fizzles - The LockBit ransomware gang claimed it had breached the U.S. Federal Reserve, but it ultimately leaked data belonging to a single bank. On June 23, LockBit listed the U.S. Federal Reserve on its data leak site and claimed to have obtained roughly 33 ...
9 months ago Techtarget.com LockBit

Law enforcement trolls LockBit, reveals massive takedown - In an act of exquisite trolling, the UK's National Crime Agency has announced further details about its disruption of the LockBit ransomware group by using the group's own dark web website. Since the demise of Conti in 2022, LockBit has been ...
1 year ago Malwarebytes.com LockBit Cloak

Cops dismantled LockBit before latest variant hit market The Register - Law enforcement's disruption of the LockBit ransomware crew comes as the criminal group was working on bringing a brand-new variant to market, research reveals. As part of the daily LockBit leaks this week, Trend Micro's report on the group, ...
1 year ago Go.theregister.com LockBit

Alleged Russian LockBit developer extradited from Israel, appears in New Jersey court | The Record from Recorded Future News - Since December, Justice Department officials have sought Panev’s extradition after a criminal complaint was unsealed last year accusing him of acting as a developer of the LockBit ransomware from 2019 to at least February 2024. The dual ...
2 weeks ago Therecord.media LockBit

The Impact of LockBits New ContiBased Encryptor on Ransomware - The LockBit ransomware gang has recently started using a new encryptor, called LockBit Green, which is based on the source code of the now-defunct Conti ransomware gang. This follows the gang's previous iterations of their encryptor, which began with ...
2 years ago Heimdalsecurity.com LockBit

Police unmask Aleksandr Ryzhenkov as Evil Corp member and LockBit affiliate - Western authorities on Tuesday named Russian national Aleksandr Ryzhenkov as one of the main members of the Evil Corp cybercrime group, as well as identifying him as an affiliate of the LockBit group. At the same time as identifying Ryzhenkov as one ...
5 months ago Therecord.media LockBit

Law enforcement agencies arrest 4 alleged LockBit members | TechTarget - Authorities arrested four suspected members of the LockBit ransomware gang during the third phase of the international law enforcement effort dubbed Operation Cronos. Operation Cronos' efforts to disrupt the LockBit ransomware gang continue as ...
5 months ago Techtarget.com LockBit

Police arrested four new individuals linked to the LockBit ransomware operation - “Europol supported a new series of actions against LockBit actors, which involved 12 countries and Eurojust and led to four arrests and seizures of servers critical for LockBit’s infrastructure.” reads the press release published by ...
5 months ago Securityaffairs.com LockBit

LockBit Remains Top Global Ransomware Threat - The LockBit ransomware strain continues to be the primary digital extortion threat to all regions, and almost all industries globally, according to a report by ZeroFox. Researchers found that LockBit was leveraged in more than a quarter of global ...
1 year ago Infosecurity-magazine.com LockBit

LockBit lied: Stolen data is from a bank, not US Federal Reserve - Recently-disrupted LockBit ransomware group, in what appears to be a desperate attempt to make a comeback, claimed this week that it had hit US Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States. The tall claim was followed up with LockBit ...
9 months ago Bleepingcomputer.com LockBit

Suspected LockBit ransomware dev extradited to United States - Panev remained an active member of LockBit ransomware's core team until February 2024, when an international law enforcement operation led by the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) and the FBI severely disrupted the cybercrime organization. Panev has ...
2 weeks ago Bleepingcomputer.com LockBit Inception

4 new LockBit-related arrests, identities of suspected Evil Corp members, affiliates revealed - Help Net Security - The third phase of Operation Cronos, which involved officers from the UK National Crime Agency (NCA), the FBI, Europol and other law enforcement agencies, has resulted in the arrest of four persons for allegedly participating in the LockBit ...
5 months ago Helpnetsecurity.com LockBit

What is Lockbit Ransomware? The Most Essential Things You Need to Know - Lockbit ransomware is one of the latest malware threats to hit the cybersecurity world. It has been seen in several major ransomware attacks, including the attack on the software maker Nuance Communications. Lockbit is a particularly dangerous strain ...
2 years ago Tripwire.com LockBit

LockBit Ransomware Affiliate Sentenced to Prison in Canada - A Russian-Canadian national was sentenced to nearly four years in prison in Canada for his role in the LockBit ransomware operation. The man, Mikhail Vasiliev, 34, was arrested in October 2022 in his home in Bradford, Ontario. In February 2024, he ...
1 year ago Securityweek.com LockBit

LockBit Claims Breaching the US Federal Reserve but Fails to Prove It - On June 23rd, LockBit announced breaching the US Federal Reserve System, while security experts remained skeptical. The Russian threat group claimed to exfiltrate 33 terabytes of banking information from the USA's central bank servers. After the ...
9 months ago Heimdalsecurity.com LockBit

LockBit ransomware exploits Citrix Bleed in attacks, 10K servers exposed - The Lockbit ransomware attacks use publicly available exploits for the Citrix Bleed vulnerability to breach the systems of large organizations, steal data, and encrypt files. Although Citrix made fixes available for CVE-2023-4966 more than a month ...
1 year ago Bleepingcomputer.com CVE-2023-4966 LockBit

LockBit targets hospitals - We did not see much research released on ransomware this week, with most of the news focusing on new attacks and LockBit affiliates increasingly targeting hospitals. These attacks include ones against Yakult Australia and the Ohio Lottery by the new ...
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