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...

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...

conversion reports, were listed on the dark web by the cyber criminal organisation claiming responsibility for the breach, LockBit. Speaking with Cyber Security Connect, a spokesperson from Australian Red Cross said the organisation had been advised...

by industry leaders Trend Micro in a report analysing the actions of the world’s most notorious ransomware groups: LockBit, Clop and ALPHV (AKA BlackCat). Of the top 10 countries affected by successful ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) and extortion...

defacements – Cyber Daily has contacted the victims of each incident where possible. Ransomware Operators: BianLian, LockBit, NoEscape, Cuba, Play, ALPHV, Akira, INC Ransom, 8Base Companies targeted: 13 Total data allegedly impacted: Over 5.4 terabytes...

exist.” Other ransomware groups are capitalising on the lack of trust in ALPHV, with fellow Russia-based ransomware group LockBit inviting ALPHV and NoEscape affiliates to come join them. “I appeal to all alpha and noescape advocates, if you have...

Trigona Companies targeted: Four Total data allegedly impacted: At least 57 gigabytes After a hectic December that saw LockBit hit three Australian companies, this month, the ransomware-as-a-service operator has been busy elsewhere. In fact, that seems...

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...

victims.” A number of these groups were rebrands of dismantled or other groups, particularly following the downfall of LockBit, which had been a cyber crime titan for some time until “Operation Cronos” dismantled its infrastructure and arrested a number...

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...

been seen deploying remote desktop applications, before moving laterally and executing further binaries. Both the Akira and LockBit ransomware groups have been seen operating in this fashion. Rapid7’s researchers believe the increase in attacks could be...

threat across all sectors. Data breaches and ransomware attacks have resurged in 2023, with popular variants like Clop, LockBit, and ALPHV, among others, terrorising businesses and exploiting system vulnerabilities. The 2021–2022 financial year saw an...

TissuPath hack, which saw diagnostic and patient records posted on the dark web leak site of notorious ransomware gang LockBit. Real estate agent Barry Plant's Blackburn branch and strata provider Strata Plan were also impacted by the data breach....

has come forward to reveal the company’s poor data-handling practices. After the company fell victim to ransomware gang LockBit in August, a wide swathe of data was posted on the darknet, including detailed documents related to the charities that had...

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...

active ransomware operation for the year, with 573 victims listed as of the end of November. The leader, though, was LockBit, which listed 579 posts in the same period, despite being relatively inactive in the last couple of months of the year....

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...

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...

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...

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...