LockBit

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain While ransomware incidents have been occurring for more than 30 years, only in the last decade has the…

Royal Mail’s parent organisation International Distributions Services plc (IDS) has revealed it spent a total of £10m in the six months to 24 September on remediation and systems resilience improvement in the wake of a LockBit…

The LockBit ransomware operation has leaked a tranche of data purloined from the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) after an attack on a company called Zaun, a West Midlands-based supplier of metal fencing products that has supplied some…

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has once again teamed up with its foreign counterparts, issuing a new joint advisory warning of the “enduring threat” posed by the LockBit ransomware gang, which, while its activity…

Security researchers are examining newly discovered Mac ransomware samples from the notorious gang LockBit, marking the first known example of a prominent ransomware group toying with macOS versions of its malware.Ransomware is a pervasive…

After a month-on-month decline during the first few weeks of 2023, the number of ransomware attacks tracked in the wild soared by 45% in February, largely driven by an increase in LockBit activity, according to proprietary data…

The LockBit ransomware gang has leaked a tranche of data exfiltrated from Royal Mail’s IT systems during its January 2022 cyber attack, and set a fresh ransom demand of £33m as it renews its efforts to force the postal service to…

Royal Mail has supposedly rebuffed an $80m (£66m) ransom demand from the LockBit ransomware gang, saying “under no circumstances” would it pay “the absurd amount of money” demanded. This is according to what appear to be chat logs…

The LockBit ransomware cartel has confirmed it was indeed behind the 10 January cyber attack on the systems of Royal Mail, which left the UK’s postal service unable to accept mail for international despatch, the ramifications of…

The LockBit ransomware cartel has confirmed it is behind the cyber attack on financial software supplier Ion Group, which has caused chaos in the City of London and left multiple clients, including the likes of ABN Amro and Intesa…