the infamous CitrixBleed vulnerability of 2023 – CVE 2023-4966 – which was heavily exploited by ransomware actors such as LockBit during its heyday. “CVE-2025-5777 is shaping up to be every bit as serious as CitrixBleed, a vulnerability that caused...

ransomware groups an Australian organisation is most likely to be targeted by, you might expect to be dealing with either LockBit or RansomHub. However, while they’re historically the threat actors with the most Australian victims, the current reality...

and commonly advertises its services on Russian-language hacking forums. The group is believed to have links to the LockBit ransomware operation and engages in double-extortion tactics, both locking victims out of their data and threatening to publish...

and equipment. Attacks against the manufacturing sector rose from 424 in Q4 2024 to 480 reported incidents in Q1 2025. LockBit activity has fallen sharply in this first quarter of 2025, with only seven reported attacks. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Clop...

to the bottom of a very confusing situation. They also discuss more details that have emerged from behind the scenes of the LockBit gang, and an accidental data breach at the Australian Human Rights Commission. Things get wrapped up with the CIA’s...

Security researchers are analysing data leaked from the LockBit ransomware operation last week, and there’s a lot to unpack. Prolific ransomware operator LockBit got a taste of its own medicine last week, when its darknet leak site was defaced and its...

April, RansomHub was arguably one of, if not the most infamous active ransomware operation, largely filling a gap left by LockBit after it struggled to rebuild following law enforcement takedowns. However, on 1 April, the ransomware operation went...

that will be powered by Facebook, DeepSeek is back in the news, a horror week of hacks for some massive UK retail chains, LockBit, and the wonderful day and night that was last week’s Australian Cyber Summit and Australian Cyber Awards. Hollingworth and...

gang has become the victim of a data leak that could be a boon for researchers and law enforcement. Ransomware gang LockBit appears to be having a very bad, no-good time of things since it began suffering serious disruption at the hands of a global law...

is the reuse of previously leaked data. The Babuk group has been utilising old data from previous RansomHub, FunkSec and LockBit leaks, while FunkSec has engaged in similar practice on several occasions. Even LockBit turned to recycling old data in the...

revealed that every leak was recycled from previous ransomware attacks claimed by groups such as RansomHub, FunkSec, and LockBit. The data volumes, the data itself, even the descriptions of the leaks themselves were taken straight from previous leak...

exfiltration of data. Prior to this, in 2023, Royal Mail International suffered a ransomware attack at the hands of the LockBit ransomware group, who confused it with the much larger Royal Mail and demanded a ransom of roughly AU$114.5 million (£65.7...

quickly, preventing a full exfiltration of data. In 2023, the Royal Mail suffered a ransomware attack at the hands of the LockBit ransomware group. While LockBit listed the leak as belonging to Royal Mail and set a ransom demand of roughly AU$114.5...

being deployed via a pair of vulnerabilities in FortiGate firewall appliances. A new ransomware actor with possible ties to LockBit and its affiliates has been observed deploying a unique ransomware variant, taking advantage of two vulnerabilities in...

Malaysia, though that appears to be entirely based on the name alone. The group is believed to have some links to the LockBit ransomware operation and engages in double-extortion tactics, locking victims out of their data and threatening to publish it...

targeting entities within Ukraine and elsewhere in Europe and the threat posed by ransomware operators. Just last week, the LockBit ransomware gang, a prolific Russian-speaking group, claimed to have gained access to information that could destroy the...

LockBit has risen from the ashes once again to claim a cyber incident on the FBI. The group announced it had exfiltrated data that could “destroy” the FBI and dedicated it as a birthday present to the FBI’s new director, Kash Patel. “Dear Kash Patel! I...

leak site, the group is likely composed of non-native English speakers. The group is believed to have some links to the LockBit ransomware operation and engages in double extortion tactics, locking victims out of their data and threatening to publish it...

69 ransomware incidents, followed by industrial control systems, with 58. Despite law enforcement takedowns and arrests, LockBit remained the most active ransomware group, with 70 incidents, followed by Play with 63 and RansomHub with 56. The three...

online, including child sexual abuse material, extremist content and ransomware used to conduct malicious cyber attacks.” LockBit, which has suffered from global takedowns a number of times and most recently had members arrested and affiliates ousted as...