The Australian Cyber Security Centre has issued an alert following a reported increase in the number of LockBit 2.0 ransomware attacks across Australia. One of the nation’s peak cyber security bodies this week issued an alert following a reported...

Acer as well as Apple supplier Quanta. Gigabyte did not comment on whether it would pay the ransom. [Related: ACSC issues LockBit 2.0 ransomware alert]

into an incident involving BlackMatter ransomware. The research also highlights similarities with the REvil and LockBit 2.0 ransomware groups. According to Mark Loman, director of engineering at Sophos, the connection their research found that this is...

Global cyber consulting company Accenture has been breached by a cyber threat using a strain of ransomware known as LockBit. Using LockBit 2.0, the attacker claims to have stolen over 6TB of Accenture’s data and is demanding $50 million in exchange....

higher volumes and greater complexity of how data is being managed," Wilson added. [Related: Accenture attacked with LockBit ransomware]

leave the past behind, others with new infrastructure and techniques to show for their temporary absence from public view. LockBit is one of the gangs to re-emerge without a new name but with a fresh set of techniques. The gang is known to target ANZ...

advisory issued about them. Ransomware became the number one attack vector in the industrial sector. Two groups, Conti and Lockbit 2.0, caused 51 per cent of total industrial ransomware attacks, with 70 per cent of their activity targeting...

and turned them into actionable insights mapped to and organised according to the MITRE ATT&CK matrix,” Skulkin said. Lockbit, Conti, and LV v.1 were the most aggressive ransomware gangs in Australia with 15, 12 and 8 victims from Australia posted on...

LockBit ransomware gang has claimed to have hacked security vendor Mandiant, threatening to leak over 350,000 stolen files online. Following LockBit's claim, Mandiant responded that it had found "no evidence" of a breach. The security vendor believes...

in payments has been pushed up by two multi-million-dollar ransoms – one to a rising group, Quantum Locker, and one to LockBit 2.0, which has been the most active ransomware gang on double-extortion leak sites so far this year. [Related: The top 3...

its activity declines only after 9:00 PM. Conti has worked closely with other ransomware operators such as Ryuk, Netwalker, LockBit, and Maze. The group tested Maze's ransomware, reverse-engineered it, and thereby significantly improved their own. An...

The LockBit gang has blocked the IT infrastructure of a small Canadian town, leaving the town to function on critical municipal services like transit, water, fire and police facilities which were unaffected. The LockBit hacker group has attacked last...

The LockBit ransomware gang has reportedly hacked L’Agenzia delle Entrate, Italy’s tax office, imposing a ransom deadline on 1 August. LockBit has claimed they stole 100GB of data which include contracts, financial reports, scans and company documents....

Analysing the targeted ransomware attacks by group, the data shows Conti made 27% of the total attacks in Q1, followed by Lockbit 2.0 (26%), AlphaV, also known as BlackCat (9%), and Hive (7%). Conti and Lockbit 2.0 maintained nearly a similar percentage...

tests. It has also tested ballistic missiles capable of reaching the US. [Related: Italian tax office reportedly hit by LockBit 3.0 hack]

Sophos researchers have found that Hive, LockBit and BlackCat, three prominent ransomware gangs, consecutively attacked the same network. The Sophos X-Ops Active Adversary white paper, titled, Multiple Attackers: A Clear and Present Danger, has found...

greater access to cyber security tools by securing an agreement with the tech giant. [Related: Ransomware gangs Hive, LockBit and BlackCat double-tapping target networks]

with customers and competitors of Google and Mandiant before handing down the decision. [Related: Ransomware gangs Hive, LockBit and BlackCat double-tapping target networks]

The high-profile LockBit ransomware gang is now apparently under a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) after threatening to leak Entrust ransomware data. LockBit was hit by a DDoS attack within a day after taking responsibility for the Entrust hack,...

for a much higher ransom price. Alongside the multiple extortion methods of DeadBolt and the ALPHV gang, the release of LockBit 3.0, a new version of the most prolific active ransomware, brought the possibility for other threat actors to buy stolen...