FBI, British authorities seize infrastructure of LockBit ransomware group

[rbc]

An international law enforcement operation on Monday seized servers and disrupted the infrastructure used by the LockBit ransomware syndicate, the latest in a string of operations aimed at hobbling the technical infrastructure of criminal and espionage groups.

In a series of indictments, court actions and sanctions, an operation dubbed “Operation Cronos” carried out by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.K.’s National Crime Agency together with a range of international partners took control of a site used by LockBit to leak data belonging to its victims, the group’s file share service and communications server, various affiliate and support servers, and a server for LockBit’s administrative panel, a senior FBI official told CyberScoop.
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FBI, British authorities seize infrastructure of LockBit ransomware group