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...

LockBit is on a winning streak as US organisations face the brunt of ransomware attacks. Security researchers have observed 35 ransomware attacks worldwide in the last seven days. The most affected country is the United States, with 14 US entities...

Attacks skyrocket and LockBit continues to be public enemy number one when it comes to ransomware impact. So much for the numbers being steady – this week, ransomware attacks around the globe jumped up by 29 per cent from last week’s 68 attacks to 119...

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...

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...

of individuals identified who may face serious risk of data misuse,” it said. The attack has been claimed by the prolific LockBit 3.0 ransomware group, which listed the group on its dark web leak site on 30 December 2023. LockBit claims Eagers...

Hackers claim to have customer and internal data totalling more than 50 gigabytes. The LockBit ransomware gang has allegedly claimed another Australian scalp, this time posting a swathe of data it claims belongs to a Queensland-based automotive...

against the most prolific ransomware operator in the world. As more information comes to light on just how completely the LockBit ransomware gang has been taken apart, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) has revealed the part it played in the...

we are notifying you out of full transparency,” the company said. While the letter does not name a threat actor, the LockBit ransomware gang claimed to have successfully hacked Consulting Radiologists on 27 April, with a ransom deadline of 9 May. The...

the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s recent judgment on the cause of the Optus hack, and recent moves from LockBit targeting US financial institutions and the Indonesian government. Enjoy the podcast, The Cyber Uncut team

around the world. Croft opens the podcast with the most recent developments in law enforcement’s efforts to tackle the LockBit ransomware gang, with four arrests made and sanctions placed against one of the gang’s major affiliates. Hollingworth then...

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...

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...

the possibility of data belonging to the company’s various charity partners being leaked – but what’s actually inside LockBit’s 150 gigabyte data dump? There’s no doubt that there’s a lot of data involved. The text file of just the file tree information...

Incidents drop, LockBit remains on top, and Australia finds itself in the top five most attacked countries. Thankfully, we’ve seen a pretty significant drop from our last seven-day reporting period this week. Total attacks numbered 64, an impressive 31...

Dragos’ latest Industrial Ransomware Analysis report reveals the rise of Qilin and the fall of LockBit, as RaaS services dominate. The risks facing industrial organisations continued to escalate into the third quarter of 2024, with incidents impacting...

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...

Smith & Caughey’s has been listed as a victim on LockBit’s ransomware leak site, and the threat actor is threatening to release data within hours. A New Zealand department store has become one of the latest victims of the LockBit ransomware gang....

LockBit 3.0 continues its ransomware spree, this time publishing data from a compromised system belonging to Seasons Darling Harbour, part of the Seasons Apartment Hotel Group. The company had been given an apparent deadline of 2 September to pay a...

LockBit outdoes itself, with 20 victims claimed in the last seven days, as the overall number of ransomware attacks skyrockets. In what we sincerely hope is not a trend likely to continue, ransomware attacks have increased by 89 per cent above last...