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LockBit falters under pressure from competitors and copycats

LockBit falters under pressure from competitors and copycats

LockBit has been claiming a hefty share of ransomware damage for years. Now the criminal organization is in danger of being pushed away by competing gangs and malicious actors that imitate them. When LockBit was targeted by Europol and other authorities in February, the impact on the cybercrime ... Read more

date13 days ago
LockBit 3.0 steals financial data from Subway

LockBit 3.0 steals financial data from Subway

LockBit 3.0 criminals carried out a successful ransomware attack on Subway. The group reportedly stole gigabytes of sensitive financial information. A group using the LockBit 3.0 ransomware to carry out attacks managed to infiltrate Subway, The Register reports. The attack was carried out by hij... Read more

date3 months ago
Emergency systems offline after ransomware attack

Emergency systems offline after ransomware attack

Three German hospitals are victims of a ransomware attack. For security reasons, all systems have been shut down. Emergency rooms have been disrupted as a result. The hospital network Katholische Hospitalvereinigung Ostwestfalen confirmed that sites in Bielefeld, Rheda-Wiedenbrück and Herford ... Read more

date4 months ago
Explosive rise in ransomware attacks since 2022

Explosive rise in ransomware attacks since 2022

The number of ransomware attacks continues to increase worldwide. This is despite a previous dip in the number of attacks, NCC Group researchers note based on figures from November this year. Whereas in the month of October, NCC Group researchers noted a small dip in the number of global ransomw... Read more

date4 months ago
Share of LockBit 3.0 ransomware attacks hardly drops in Europe

Share of LockBit 3.0 ransomware attacks hardly drops in Europe

The share of ransomware attacks by the infamous LockBit 3.0 hackers is slowly declining. This is the conclusion of researchers from security specialist ZeroFox in a recent study. A slow decline is also visible in Europe, but it is almost negligible. According to ZeroFox researchers, the number o... Read more

date4 months ago
Citrix Bleed vulnerability exploited before it was even discovered

Citrix Bleed vulnerability exploited before it was even discovered

The scope of the Citrix Bleed vulnerability is likely larger than thought. New insight suggests that the vulnerability was exploited well before it was discovered and fixed in October this year. This is what CISA indicates to Bloomberg. According to Bloomberg, a representative of U.S. cybersecur... Read more

date5 months ago
September 2023 is a record ransomware month

September 2023 is a record ransomware month

The month of September delivered a record number of ransomware attacks. This is the finding of security experts from the NCC Group. According to the security report, as many as 514 ransomware attacks took place. This is 32 percent higher than the quiet month of August 2023 and more than a peak i... Read more

date6 months ago
LockBit 3.0 most active ransomware gang in August

LockBit 3.0 most active ransomware gang in August

LockBit 3.0 carried out the most ransomware attacks in the month of August this year. 125 of the total 390 attacks from that month were carried out by these hackers. That's according to figures from NCC Group. This represents 150 percent more attacks than in July. A reason why LockBit 3.0 carrie... Read more

date7 months ago
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