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Ransomware Gangs Use LockBit's Fame to Intimidate Victims in Latest Attacks
2024-10-23 09:30

Threat actors have been observed abusing Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) Transfer Acceleration feature as part of ransomware attacks designed to exfiltrate victim data and upload them to S3...

Crypt Ghouls Targets Russian Firms with LockBit 3.0 and Babuk Ransomware Attacks
2024-10-19 07:39

A nascent threat actor known as Crypt Ghouls has been linked to a set of cyber attacks targeting Russian businesses and government agencies with ransomware with the twin goals of disrupting...

LockBit Ransomware and Evil Corp Members Arrested and Sanctioned in Joint Global Effort
2024-10-03 07:15

A new wave of international law enforcement actions has led to four arrests and the takedown of nine servers linked to the LockBit (aka Bitwise Spider) ransomware operation, marking the latest...

4 new LockBit-related arrests, identities of suspected Evil Corp members, affiliates revealed
2024-10-02 09:36

The third phase of Operation Cronos, which involved officers from the UK National Crime Agency (NCA), the FBI, Europol and other law enforcement agencies, has resulted in the arrest of four...

Euro cops arrest 4 including suspected LockBit dev chilling on holiday
2024-10-01 17:35

And also: What looks like proof that stolen data was never deleted even after ransom was paid Building on the success of what's known around here as LockBit Leak Week in February, the authorities...

Police arrest four suspects linked to LockBit ransomware gang
2024-10-01 15:36

Law enforcement authorities from 12 countries arrested four suspects linked to the LockBit ransomware gang, including a developer, a bulletproof hosting service administrator, and two people...

NCA unmasks man it suspects is both 'Evil Corp kingpin' and LockBit affiliate
2024-10-01 14:08

Aleksandr Ryzhenkov alleged to have extorted around $100M from victims, built 60 LockBit attacks The latest installment of the National Crime Agency's (NCA) series of ransomware revelations from...

Deja blues... LockBit boasts once again of ransoming IRS-authorized eFile.com
2024-09-18 20:14

Add 'ransomware' to the list of certainties in life? Notorious ransomware gang LockBit claims once again to have compromised eFile.com, which offers online services for electronically filing tax...

LockBit boasts of ransoming IRS-authorized eFile.com
2024-09-18 20:14

Add 'ransomware' to the list of certainties in life? Notorious ransomware gang LockBit claims to have compromised eFile.com, which offers online services for electronically filing tax returns with...

'LockBit of phishing' EvilProxy used in more than a million attacks every month
2024-07-30 14:33

Insight The developers of EvilProxy - a phishing kit dubbed the "LockBit of phishing" - have produced guides on using legitimate Cloudflare services to disguise malicious traffic. "In recent months, Proofpoint has observed a significant increase in EvilProxy campaigns that use Cloudflare services to disguise their traffic, which prevents automated sandbox detection and ensures only targeted human users interact with the phishing links to receive the credential phishing landing pages," Blackford explained.