Australia is currently looking at mechanisms for the effective sharing of incident response (IR) intelligence after the LockBit takedown earlier this year demonstrated just how effective shared information can be. Infamous ransomware gang LockBit was...

hired call centre specialist OracleCMS, which became the victim of a data breach a month later after being targeted by the LockBit ransomware gang. “Regrettably, we became aware on 18 April that the external supplier we contracted to manage our...

Ransomware titan LockBit has claimed an attack on major Canadian pharmacy chain London Drugs, leading to the company shutting down its stores last week. The threat group yesterday (21 May) listed London Drugs on its dark web leak site, giving it a...

despite high-profile disruption operations that targeted two of the more prolific ransomware-as-a-service operators. Both LockBit and ALPHV had their darknet leak sites taken over by law enforcement in recent months, with LockBit’s alleged ringleader...

The LockBit ransomware gang has bounced back from its senior administrator being unmasked, with more than 65 leak posts in a single day. We talk to Recorded Future’s Alexander Leslie about what that activity means. Days after an international coalition...

authentication. From the law enforcement side, while they have had some recent successes with takedowns and arrests from LockBit to Qakbot, these successes have proven to be more akin to temporary disruptions than longer-term or permanent wins.” You can...

placed on his arrest. The Australian government has announced sweeping sanctions against a Russian national behind the LockBit ransomware gang. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev, 31, has been identified as a key hacker in the group and the man behind the...

2023. The AFP’s Operation Aquila also assisted law enforcement agencies from 10 countries in the campaign against the LockBit ransomware-as-a-service operation, the most prolific ransomware operator in the world. Australian businesses and individuals...

LockBit’s seized dark web leak site looks set to host new information garnered from ongoing investigations into the gang’s operation. New revelations about the LockBit ransomware gang may be looming, according to the operation’s old dark web leak site....

councils so far have confirmed that data has been stolen as a result of the breach, after notorious ransomware gang LockBit 3.0 breached the third-party provider. Melbourne’s Knox City Council issued a statement, saying that while its own systems had...

of several leading ransomware gangs such as ALPHV (BlackCat) and a number of law enforcement takedowns such as that on LockBit 3.0, the ransomware landscape is changing. According to a report released by cyber security organisation Sophos, a new type of...

personal details of thousands of individuals and more than a dozen local councils have leaked onto the dark web following a LockBit ransomware attack. Infamous ransomware operator LockBit has struck again, this time targeting an Australian call centre...

worldwide have been busy dismantling threat groups and online forums and marketplaces in recent months, with both the LockBit and ALPHV ransomware gangs suffering from global takedowns. Nemesis Market is also the second marketplace the BKA has taken...

we will confirm that with the data uploading.” Akira is potentially set to have a big year of cyber crime in 2024, with the LockBit ransomware takedown earlier this year pushing skilled hackers towards the aforementioned threat group.

an influx of “pen-testers”, according to a security researcher’s report. Infamous ransomware-as-a-service operation LockBit may still be in operation, but it appears last month’s takedown of the gang by an international law enforcement action may have...

A key affiliate of the infamous LockBit ransomware gang has been sentenced to four years in prison by Canadian courts and ordered to pay almost $1 million in restitution. Mikhail Vasiliev was originally arrested for his role in the LockBit ransomware...

LockBit finally has a competitor, and numbers drop overall – plus China gets hacked! The LockBit gang continues to post victims, suggesting that its infrastructure may be up and running after its apparent takedown by a coalition of law enforcement...

to cyber attack from resurrected ransomware gang. Australian retail software vendor GaP Solutions has fallen victim to the LockBit ransomware gang. LockBit posted on its darknet leak site on 29 February, threatening to publish whatever data it had...

LockBit returns like nothing ever happened, as the number of incidents jumps by 25 per cent. It was simply too good to last. Within days of its darknet leak site being dramatically seized by an international coalition of law enforcement agencies,...

You can read the January 2024 report here. Ransomware Operators: Medusa, Hunters International, Black Basta, ThreeAM, LockBit Companies targeted: Five Total data allegedly impacted: At least 395 gigabytes With LockBit being taken down earlier this...