LockBit continues to operate, albeit at a significantly reduced capacity. Its name no longer amounts to the same degree of peril as it once did, and that's shown in the numbers.

LockBit, the notorious ransomware gang that began infecting victims around January 2020, more or less ended with the UK-led disruption and website seizure in February, ...

This article was initially published on February 20, 2024. It was updated with a statement from LockBit admins on February 26, 2024. Operation Cronos, the global law enforcement operation that took ...

The FBI and its international allies have seized a dark-web site that the world’s most prolific ransomware gang has used to extort its victims, according to a message on the website viewed by CNN.

The group has issued two big updates to the code—LockBit 2.0, released in mid-2021, and LockBit 3.0, released in June 2022. The two versions are also known as LockBit Red and LockBit Black ...

Lockbit ransomware, first seen on Russian-language-based cybercrime forums in January 2020, has been detected all over the world, with organizations in the United States, ...

Lockbit, the cybercrime gang that was knocked offline by a comprehensive international police operation earlier this month, says it has restored its servers and is back in business.

LockBit was first seen in September 2019 and very quickly stood out among competing ransomware families. Whereas most are manually operated, LockBit largely automated its tasks, ...

The US Treasury has sanctioned Aeza Group, a Russian bulletproof hosting (BPH) provider, and four of its cronies for enabling ransomware and other cybercriminal activity.

LockBit didn’t delete victims’ data — even if they paid. It’s long been suspected that paying a hacker’s ransom demand is a gamble and not a guarantee that stolen data will be deleted.

Crises are inevitable, whether due to cyber-attacks, power outages or something else unexpected. To me, building resilience ...