Croft to unpack the week in cyber security. From hacks abroad and closer to home, the changing tactics of the once prolific LockBit ransomware gang, to new Australian laws introduced to protect our privacy and stop the spread of misinformation, the pair...

came to light when Design Intoto, an Australian retail design company, was listed for the second time this year by the LockBit 3.0 ransomware gang, just three months after it had been listed by RansomHub in April. Speaking with Cyber Daily, Design...

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...

high rate of attacks is that – according to CISA – several “high-profile affiliates” have migrated to RansomHub from the LockBit and ALPHV ransomware operations. Given both of the latter gangs have experienced their own high-profile run-ins with...

groups trends, patterns, and observations Dragos’ analysis of numerous ransomware data from Q2 indicates that the LockBit group was behind most attacks against industrial organisations, with approximately 21 per cent (or 66 incidents) of observed...

the gang only began operations in February of this year, but it does note that the gang appears to have some links to the LockBit gang based on the design of its darknet leak site. Dispossessor – also known as Radar, the FBI said – is, possibly was, a...

Court grants injunction against accessing any data currently published or to be published in the future following a LockBit ransomware attack. The Supreme Court of NSW has granted an injunction restraining third parties from accessing or disseminating...

the period of April to April, a 5.8 per cent increase on the previous year. As to the ransomware gangs themselves, while LockBit was clearly the most active group during the period, with 998 attacks – compared to 410 undertaken by the number two...

The LockBit ransomware gang is threatening to publish more than 40,000 files stolen from the Wattle Range Council. A South Australian council is the latest victim of the LockBit ransomware gang, with the criminals posting details of the attack on their...

Millions have been impacted after LockBit leaked the data of Evolve Bank & Trust last month, according to a new breach notification. In June, the LockBit ransomware gang threatened to leak the data of the US Federal Reserve, but instead leaked the data...

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

Evolve Bank & Trust, the organisation that had its data leaked by LockBit in place of the US Federal Reserve, has confirmed the authenticity of the leak. In a release on its website, the bank said it had launched an investigation into the breach, and...

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,...

LockBit’s claims of breaching and exfiltrating data from the US Federal Reserve have been proven false after the group’s leak countdown timer hit zero, but data allegedly for another organisation was published. As expected by researchers, the prolific...

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...

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...

Of the 905 global ransomware incidents affecting industrial organisations, 13 targeted Australian entities. The recent Lockbit 3.0 attack on DP World Australia highlighted the potential cascading impacts of ransomware on industrial operations, supply...

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 FBI is inviting victims of the LockBit ransomware gang to reach out after it secured 7,000 decryption keys from the threat group. During a keynote at the 2024 Boston Conference on Cyber Security discussing its ongoing disruption of LockBit, a...

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....