A dual Canadian-Russian national has been sentenced to four years in prison for his role in infecting more than 1,000 victims with the LockBit ransomware and then extorting them for tens of millions ...

Law enforcement agencies including the FBI and the UK’s National Crime Agency have dealt a crippling blow to LockBit, one of the world’s most prolific cybercrime gangs, whose victims include Royal ...

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.

U.K. data protection authorities have issued a provisional fine of more than £6 million to NHS vendor Advanced after finding that the company failed to properly secure the information of thousands of ...

Law enforcement officials say they’ve identified, sanctioned, and indicted the person behind LockBitSupp, the administrator at the heart of LockBit’s $500 million hacking rampage. Law enforcement in ...

The LockBit ransomware gang has suffered a data breach after its dark web affiliate panels were defaced and replaced with a message linking to a MySQL database dump. All of the ransomware gang's admin ...

The LockBit gang is relaunching its ransomware operation on a new infrastructure less than a week after law enforcement hacked their servers, and is threatening to focus more of their attacks on the ...

Despite being taken down and humiliated by the National Crime Agency (NCA) coordinated Operation Cronos in February 2024, an unknown individual(s) associated with, or claiming to represent, the ...

RansomHub is now the number one ransomware operation in terms of claimed successful attacks, according to new data from Symantec. The security vendor’s latest threat intelligence report for Q3 2024, ...

Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, a Russian national, has been the subject of a $10,000,000 reward for information by the Department of Justice for his alleged involvement in LockBit and other ransomware ...

Law enforcement officials from 11 countries have joined forces to disrupt the activities of a major cybercrime group. Among those in the community of cybersecurity researchers, the group, known as ...

For all its vaunted success, the LockBit ransomware operation appears to have already been beset by problems when an international law enforcement effort led by the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) ...