After a rather long hiatus, LockBit is fighting back against the FBI, having written a personal birthday message to the bureau’s director, Christopher Asher Wray, saying it has exfiltrated data. In a post to Telegram, a user named Fox William Mulder...

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,...

Ministry of Defence being leaked and posted online. An attack on fencing manufacturer Zaun saw data stolen by the infamous LockBit ransomware gang last month, which was then posted on the threat actor’s dark web leak site. “On 5th – 6th August, Zaun was...

have been disrupted after a threat actor breached the country’s national data centre. Hackers using a new variant of the LockBit 3.0 ransomware called Brain Cipher encrypted Indonesia’s Temporary National Data Centre, leading a number of services,...

to be claiming responsibility for the same incident. On 30 August, the company was listed on the dark web leak site of LockBit 3.0, which threatened to publish data on 13 September. Outside of the listing, the ransomware gang has not said what data was...

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...

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....

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...

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...

Security researchers have uncovered what appears to be an iteration in LockBit ransomware capabilities, suggesting the group is looking at targeting a range of hardware architectures in the near future. Kaspersky’s Securelist revealed that they...

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...

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...

Aerospace giant Boeing has said it is “actively investigating” ransomware claims by the LockBit gang. Ransomware operators LockBit 3.0 made a big announcement on its darknet leak site over the weekend, claiming the ransomware scalp of American...

Not the bears! LockBit ransomware operation lists a beloved teddy bear outlet as a victim on its darknet leak site. Like a jack-in-the-box, the LockBit ransomware operation keeps popping up, reminding cyber watchers that – despite several takedowns –...

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...

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...

Ransomware incidents drop drastically, and not just because LockBit is out of the picture. The big news in ransomware this week isn’t an attack or even lots of attacks – it’s the takedown of the most prolific ransomware group in the world, LockBit. A...

post more than 800 gigabytes of data belonging to the Korean conglomerate Hanwha within seven days if a ransom isn’t paid. LockBit 3.0 posted that it had the data on 8 September on its darknet leak site and shared a small number of sample documents to...

encryption attempts – on the impacted systems were encrypted by ransomware, which appears to be similar to that used by the LockBit gang in the past. In both instances, Huntress was able to use TeamViewer log files to measure the time the bad guys spent...

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....