state the country is in. Malicious activity in Q4 of 2022 revealed Australia was the sixth-most affected country by the LockBit 3.0 ransomware, one of the most aggressive forms of ransomware. The report also highlights the transportation and shipping...

to be infected, it’s time to review and renew efforts to improve access control privilege management. As a threat, LockBit has been the subject of a series of government warnings over the years, coinciding with the evolution of the malware, which is now...

Is this a mighty blow against cyber crime, or just a glancing blow? Taking out LockBit should be celebrated, but it’s just one small step in the fight against ransomware. This week saw a global partnership of law enforcement agencies, headed by...

continue. Moves and changes in the ransomware space The demise of Conti and the introduction of a new version of LockbBit, LockBit 3.0, Black Basta and several other ransomware groups targeting ICS/OT restructured the ransomware industry in 2022....

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...

tracked the activity of 20 ransomware groups, compared to 24 in the previous quarter. Analysis of ransomware data shows Lockbit 3.0 was responsible for 36 per cent of the total ransomware attacks, accounting for 77 incidents, nearly double the incidents...

Overall, these types of business relationships raise the risk level that industrial organisations face from ransomware. LockBit 3.0 accounted for 21 per cent (or 40 incidents) of the 189 ransomware incidents that impacted industrial organisations and...

greater access to cyber security tools by securing an agreement with the tech giant. [Related: Ransomware gangs Hive, LockBit and BlackCat double-tapping target networks]

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...

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...

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...

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...

to the big-name ransomware syndicates like ALPHV and Clop, but rather the new kids on the block. While the prolific LockBit 3.0 still topped the podium for the most active ransomware group, second on the ladder was LostTrust, a group that formed in...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Medusa has shown itself to be both resourceful and ruthless, and while it may not have the impact or reputation of Clop or LockBit, there’s no denying that the group is a threat actor to watch. “The emergence of the Medusa ransomware in late 2022 and...

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...

by AI giants, alongside a major network infrastructure firm, has allegedly suffered from a cyber attack at the hands of LockBit 3.0. Marvell Technology, a data infrastructure semiconductor solutions provider, was listed on the threat group’s dark web...