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Law enforcement operation seized Ragnar Locker group’s infrastructure

Security Affairs

The ransomware operation has been active since late December 2019, the FBI published two flash alert to warn of the operation of the group. This is an important achievement in the fight against cybercrime. Both FBI and Europol declined to comment on the events. More details are expected to be released tomorrow.

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Operation Cronos: law enforcement disrupted the LockBit operation

Security Affairs

pic.twitter.com/SvpbeslrCd — vx-underground (@vxunderground) February 19, 2024 LockBit is a prominent ransomware operation that first emerged in September 2019. Lockbit ransomware group administrative staff has confirmed with us their websites have been seized. on January 5, 2020.

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US GOV OFFERS A REWARD OF UP TO $15M FOR INFO ON LOCKBIT GANG MEMBERS AND AFFILIATES

Security Affairs

The NCA and its global partners have secured over 1,000 decryption keys that will allow victims of the gang to recover their files for free. LockBit is a prominent ransomware operation that first emerged in September 2019. reads the press release published by DoJ.

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Risk Management under the DORA Regulation

IT Governance

You’d therefore expect that the sector fares better at data security than your average organisation. The public data set on the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office) website shows that data security isn’t necessarily better for financial organisations. What do the statistics say? million (about £4.70

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More details about Operation Cronos that disrupted Lockbit operation

Security Affairs

The NCA and its global partners have secured over 1,000 decryption keys that will allow victims of the gang to recover their files for free. LockBit is a prominent ransomware operation that first emerged in September 2019. In 2022, LockBit was one of the most active ransomware groups, and its prevalence continued into 2023.

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Iran-linked APT group Pioneer Kitten sells access to hacked networks

Security Affairs

The Iranian hacker group has been attacking corporate VPNs over the past months, they have been hacking VPN servers to plant backdoors in companies around the world targeting Pulse Secure , Fortinet , Palo Alto Networks , and Citrix VPNs. ” reads the report published by Crowdstrike. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Ragnar Locker ransomware group breached at least 52 organizations across 10 critical infrastructure sectors

Security Affairs

The ransomware operation has been active since late December 2019, this is the second time that the FBI first shares IoC related to RagnarLocker operation, the FBI first became aware of this threat in April 2020. Secure your back-ups and ensure data is not accessible for modification or deletion from the system where the data resides.