Security News > 2024 > February > Police arrests LockBit ransomware members, release decryptor in global crackdown
Law enforcement arrested two operators of the LockBit ransomware gang in Poland and Ukraine, created a decryption tool to recover encrypted files for free, and seized over 200 crypto-wallets after hacking the cybercrime gang's servers in an international crackdown operation.
The global LockBit crackdown was coordinated by Operation Cronos, a task force headed by the U.K. National Crime Agency and coordinated in Europe by Europol and Eurojust.
Europol has told BleepingComputer that those rogue accounts were used by LockBit members to host tools and software used in attacks and to store data stolen from companies.
The ransomware group's affiliate panel has also been seized by the police, now showing a message to affiliates after they log in that their information, LockBit source code, chats, and victim information were also seized.
LockBit ransomware disrupted by global police operation.
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