is the target of the charges and has been a part of the development of a number of ransomware variants, including Hive, LockBit, and Babuk. Matveev has been very vocal about his ransomware exploits, going so far as to boast about stealing data from a...

Following claims by LockBit that Darktrace’s systems had been compromised, cyber security firm Darktrace has stated that it has verified that its systems were never breached. Darktrace issued the statement on Thursday last week (13 April) after the...

are contacted by a threat actor, and even then they may not know how to proceed. On the same day, according to Venari, the LockBit group claimed two scalps as well — a company called AEK in Macedonia and the Mundo Cuervo tequila company in Mexico....

2022. The top globally detected malware were webshells, with a 103 per cent increase in use over 2021, followed by Emotet. LockBit and BlackCat were the top ransomware strains for the year. The report also found that there was a 116 per cent surge in...

majority of operations have now been fully restored.” While Pierce Transit did not reveal the identity of the hacker, the LockBit ransomware group claimed responsibility for the attack, demanding a US$1,999,999 ransom for either the destruction or...

employee data was,” the company said on its FAQ page. Indigo’s investigations revealed that the criminals used the popular LockBit ransomware in the attack. “Although we do not know the identity of the criminals, some criminal groups using LockBit are...

state the country is in. Malicious activity in Q4 of 2022 revealed Australia was the sixth-most affected country by the LockBit 3.0 ransomware, one of the most aggressive forms of ransomware. The report also highlights the transportation and shipping...

I’m on the list of those compromised. Talk about poor communication,” said one former employee. The ransomware group LockBit (LockBit is also the name of the ransomware software in question) has taken responsibility for the attack and has given Indigo...

LockBit has leaked the transcript of its negotiations with Royal Mail, revealing a ransom demand of over AU$114 million. The chat log was leaked only days after the latest payment deadline of 14 February. While Royal Mail didn’t pay, the attackers are...

Canada’s healthcare system has seen a sharp rise in the number of cyber attacks in the last few months. In December, a LockBit affiliate compromised a number of important systems at the country’s largest children’s hospital, The Hospital for Sick...

Overall, these types of business relationships raise the risk level that industrial organisations face from ransomware. LockBit 3.0 accounted for 21 per cent (or 40 incidents) of the 189 ransomware incidents that impacted industrial organisations and...

Russian-affiliated ransomware operator LockBit has set its sights on an Irish financial services and trading company, with the impact affecting derivatives traders in the United States and Europe. The Ion Group specialises in the automation of...

attack on the Colonial Pipeline Company. The group has also been known to work alongside other operators such as Hive and LockBit.

by terminating a range of processes on targeted networks. BlackCat also shares some similarities with BlackMatter and LockBit ransomware, which suggests there may be some cooperation between their operators. The Office of Information Security (OIS) does...

In an odd turn of events for one of the most notorious ransomware gangs in the world, LockBit has issued an apology for its attack on the largest children’s hospital in Canada. The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) fell victim to a cyber attack on...

that is commonly used by Chinese threat actors. The most common ransomware tool detected via Trellix’s telemetry was LockBit, a program which blocks user access to a PC, and will only lift restrictions once a ransom is paid to the offender. LockBit made...

or corrupting the files rather than encrypting them. “We also observed an interesting series of events involving the LockBit ransomware group. “The events include the group offering bug bounties to those who discover vulnerabilities or deliver ideas to...

emails, opting to pay disgruntled insiders for credentials that will allow access to the network, as demonstrated in the LockBit 2.0 ransomware attacks. Whatever the source of an insider threat, the impacts can be huge. According to the Ponemon...

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...

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,...