Agency (NCA) has released additional details of its joint takedown of the notorious and most infamous ransomware group, LockBit. The threat group’s site was taken down yesterday (20 February 2024) by international law enforcement agencies, led by the...

Developers for the now crippled LockBit ransomware group were reportedly developing a secret new encryptor that would have bolstered its future capabilities. LockBit ransomware was taken down this week when a campaign by a global alliance of law...

Ransomware gang LockBit has claimed responsibility for the hack – and has shared employee passports and financial data to prove it. After a hacker defaced the company’s website last week as a calling card, the LockBit 3.0 ransomware group has now...

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...

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...

Notorious ransomware gang LockBit has claimed a cyber attack on the US Federal Reserve LockBit listed the US central banking system on its site on 23 June, claiming to have exfiltrated 33 terabytes of “juicy banking information containing American’s...

have been compromised, with Pareto Phone responsible for more than 70 charities. The Pareto Phone data was first listed by LockBit on its leak site on 31 July, with the group listing a deadline of 7 August. While not explicitly stated, LockBit had...

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...

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....

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....

While LockBit 3.0 may still be the leading ransomware group at the moment in terms of victims, a new group has surged ahead in June to take second place. However 8Base, the new kid apparently sticking it to the old-timers, could well be a mature,...

hop from operation to operation. And those people, they’re definitely global. Cyber Daily: Given things like last year’s LockBit takedown, it’s easy to imagine that affiliates must move around all that time and that a takedown like that must have a huge...

This week saw the world’s largest and most notorious ransomware gang – LockBit – taken down by international law enforcement in a sting led by the UK’s National Crime Agency and the FBI. As a result of the takedown, several members or users of the...

attack on the Colonial Pipeline Company. The group has also been known to work alongside other operators such as Hive and LockBit.

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...

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...

exactly, and who they are close to, are ongoing. “Although Microsoft has observed this threat actor deploying Warlock and LockBit ransomware in the past, Microsoft is currently unable to confidently assess the threat actor’s objectives,” Microsoft said.

Acer as well as Apple supplier Quanta. Gigabyte did not comment on whether it would pay the ransom. [Related: ACSC issues LockBit 2.0 ransomware alert]

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...

A criminal prosecution of Donald Trump has gotten caught up in a ransomware drama as two sides argue over who paid who. LockBit is back in the headlines over its ransomware attack on Fulton County in the US, but this time, the situation has gotten very...