Only five days after an international law enforcement effort seized LockBit’s leak sites, 34 servers, and 14,400 rogue email accounts used to support infrastructure and extortion, LockBit3.0 has reappeared with a new Tor site that looks like the old one. There are half a dozen entries on it at this time. One of the listings…
Category: Of Note
True or false, Friday law enforcement edition
From today’s update to the LockBit3.0 blog, now under the control of law enforcement, we read claims that law enforcement knows who and where LockBitSupp is, and that he drives a Mercedes and not a Lamborghini. Now that last bit may be enough to get a response from LockBitSupp if they’re just trolling him. But…
If you pay ransom, you may not get your data back and worse, you probably WILL get hit again – Cybereason Survey
Ever since ransomware attacks and “double extortion” attacks became common, law enforcement has urged victims not to pay ransom demands. Paying criminals ransom only encourages them to attack more victims, and despite criminals swearing they will delete their copy of your data that they stole, they don’t. Then, too, once you show them that you…
Change Healthcare responding to cyberattack; few details known at this point
Early yesterday, Change Healthcare reported that they were experiencing enterprise-wide connectivity issues. They didn’t call it a cyberattack at that point, but by mid-day, their status reports were indicating that they were experiencing “a network interruption related to a cyber security issue.” A few hours later, they added a statement, “Once we became aware of…
Unpicking LockBit — 22 Cases of Affiliate Tradecraft
As part of its roll-out of news about the LockBit disruption, the governments involved have provided additional information and resources. One of the resources is an article by Secureworks. The summary of their article: Summary The GOLD MYSTIC threat group has operated the LockBit name-and-shame ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme since mid-2019, exploiting unauthorized access to thousands…
HHS’ Office for Civil Rights Settles Second Ever Ransomware Cyber-Attack for $40,000 and a Corrective Action Plan with OCR Monitoring
HHS OCR has announced a second enforcement settlement in a ransomware case. The 2019 breach involving Green Ridge Behavioral Health managed to fly mostly under the media radar at the time. DataBreaches was not even aware that it was a ransomware attack as when this site contacted Green Ridge back then to inquire about the…