LOCKBIT RANSOMWARE BACK AFTER INTERNATIONAL BUST
February 18th, 2024
Ransomware site LockBit is claiming to be back in business less than a week after being brought down by an international swoop led by Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA). Operation Cronos, which NCA director general, Graeme Biggar described as “a ground-breaking disruption of the world’s most harmful cybercrime group” in a February 20 statement (1), saw the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), law enforcement from eight other countries (2), plus the European Union police agency (Europol), seize Russia-linked LockBit’s bespoke data exfiltration ...
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