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Operation Cronos didn’t kill LockBit – it just came back meaner Trend Micro has sounded the alarm over the new LockBit 5.0 ransomware strain, which it warns is "significantly more dangerous" than past versions due to its newfound ability to simultaneously target Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi environments. …
Trend Micro highlighted the new LockBit version’s improved technical improvements and cross-platform functionality compared to previous iterations
Threat actors have been observed abusing Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) Transfer Acceleration feature as part of ransomware attacks designed to exfiltrate victim data and upload them to S3 buckets under their control
Symantec data reveals RansomHub claimed more attacks than any other group in Q3 2024
The Ukraine cyber police have arrested a 28-year-old Russian man in Kyiv for working with Conti and LockBit ransomware operations to make their malware undetectable by antivirus software and conducting at least one attack himself. [...]
Kaspersky researchers discovered the new variant after responding to a critical incident targeting an organization in West Africa.
Kaspersky also uncovered the use of the SessionGopher script to extract saved passwords
A Trend Micro report shows a clear drop in the number of actual infections associated with the LockBit ransomware following Operation Cronos
Also: Avast Agrees to $16.5 Million Civil Penalty to Settle Privacy InvestigationThis week: more fallout from LockBit, Avast to pay $16.5M, Russia-linked group targeted mail servers, no indication that AT&T was hacked, analysis of a patched Apple flaw, Microsoft enhanced logging, an Android banking Trojan, North Korean hackers and a baking giant fell to ransomware.
The Trend Micro report observed that small organizations are being increasingly targeted by ransomware gangs, including LockBit and BlackCat
Symantec says it was used in a failed LockBit attack
A new ransomware family called 3AM has emerged in the wild after it was detected in a single incident in which an unidentified affiliate deployed the strain following an unsuccessful attempt to deploy LockBit (aka Bitwise Spider or Syrphid) in the target network
Kaspersky explained that LockBit 3.0, also known as LockBit Black, first emerged in June 2022
The leak of the LockBit 3.0 ransomware builder last year has led to threat actors abusing the tool to spawn new variants
The threat actors behind the nascent Buhti ransomware have eschewed their custom payload in favor of leaked LockBit and Babuk ransomware families to strike Windows and Linux systems