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UK agency says they have ‘hacked the hackers’ and will help LockBit victims decrypt their systemsA massive law enforcement operation has seized the “command and control” infrastructure for international ransomware group LockBit, the UK’s National Crime…
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To date, the LockBit ransomware gang targeted over 2,000 victims and received more than $120 million in ransom payments.
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In the wake of yesterday’s surprise law enforcement takeover of LockBit’s leak site, the UK National Crime Agency (NCA) and Europol have shared more information about the extent of the takedown. “Today, after infiltrating the group’s …
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All known dark web domains operated by the notorious LockBit Ransomware Gang are displaying a law enforcement seizure notice.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 8 LockBit Ransomware Gang Domains Seized in Global Operation
Exclusive: Jin Guanghua was arrested by the AFP in Melbourne last year and is facing extradition to the USGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA Chinese national has been quietly arrested and detained in Australia fo…
Experts say new DoJ program intended to track backgrounds of federal police unlikely to solve problem of ‘wandering officers’A new US justice department database intended to track the backgrounds of officers working for federal law enforcement agencies…
In January 2024, an operation dismantled a network of hundreds of SOHO routers controlled by GRU Military Unit 26165, also known as APT 28, Sofacy Group, Forest Blizzard, Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, and Sednit. This network facilitated various crimes, incl…
Three Americans were charged this week with stealing more than $400 million in a November 2022 SIM-swapping attack. The U.S. government did not name the victim organization, but there is every indication that the money was stolen from the now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX, which had just filed for bankruptcy on that same day.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) disclosed today that it infiltrated the world’s second most prolific ransomware gang, a Russia-based criminal group known as ALPHV and BlackCat. The FBI said it seized the gang’s darknet website, and released a decryption tool that hundreds of victim companies can use to recover systems. Meanwhile, BlackCat responded by briefly “unseizing” its darknet site with a message promising 90 percent commissions for affiliates who continue to work with the crime group, and open season on everything from hospitals to nuclear power plants.
CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING – As U.S. Government Executives are working to implement the Biden Administration’s new Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence, (AI) they are not […] More
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