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FBI obtained 7,000 LockBit decryption keys, victims should contact the feds to get support

Security Affairs

” said Bryan Vorndran, the Assistant Director at the FBI Cyber Division, during the 2024 Boston Conference on Cyber Security. . “Additionally, from our ongoing disruption of LockBit, we now have over 7,000 decryption keys and can help victims reclaim their data and get back online.”

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 12 – 18 February 2024

IT Governance

Tech giants agree to combat AI-enhanced election fraud At the Munich Security Conference last Friday, executives from Adobe, Amazon, Google, IBM, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and TikTok announced a new framework for responding to AI-generated deepfakes designed to trick voters.