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BlackCat Ransomware Group Implodes After Apparent $22M Payment by Change Healthcare

March 5, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, alphv ransomware, blackcat ransomware, change healthcare, data breaches, dmitry smilyanets, emsisoft, fabian wosar, FBI, lockbit, NCA, optum, ramp, ransomware, Recorded Future, wired.com

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:22:56 +0000

There are indications that U.S. healthcare giant Change Healthcare has made a $22 million extortion payment to the infamous BlackCat ransomware group (a.k.a. “ALPHV”) as the company struggles to bring services back online amid a cyberattack that has disrupted prescription drug services nationwide for weeks. However, the cybercriminal who claims to have given BlackCat access to Change’s network says the crime gang cheated them out of their share of the ransom, and that they still have the sensitive data that Change reportedly paid the group to destroy. Meanwhile, the affiliate’s disclosure appears to have prompted BlackCat to cease operations entirely.

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Fulton County, Security Experts Call LockBit’s Bluff

February 29, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, brett callow, data breaches, emsisoft, FBI, fulton county hack, lockbit, lockbitsupp, NCA, ransomware, redsense, robb pitts

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 22:18:54 +0000

The ransomware group LockBit told officials with Fulton County, Ga. they could expect to see their internal documents published online this morning unless the county paid a ransom demand. Instead, LockBit removed Fulton County’s listing from its victim shaming website this morning, claiming county officials had paid. But county officials said they did not pay, nor did anyone make payment on their behalf. Security experts say LockBit was likely bluffing and probably lost most of the data when the gang’s servers were seized this month by U.S. and U.K. law enforcement.

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Feds Seize LockBit Ransomware Websites, Offer Decryption Tools, Troll Affiliates

February 28, 2024 admin artur sungatov, bassterlord, Europol, FBI, ivan gennadievich kondratyev, lockbit, lockbitsupp, mark stockley, mikhail matveev, mikhail vasiliev, NCA, Ne'er-Do-Well News, operation cronos, prodaft, ransomware, ruslan magomedovich astamirov, u.k. national crime agency

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 17:09:00 +0000

U.S. and U.K. authorities have seized the darknet websites run by LockBit, a prolific and destructive ransomware group that has claimed more than 2,000 victims worldwide and extorted over $120 million in payments. Instead of listing data stolen from ransomware victims who didn’t pay, LockBit’s victim shaming website now offers free recovery tools, as well as news about arrests and criminal charges involving LockBit affiliates.

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Fake DDoS services set up to trap cybercriminals

March 28, 2023 admin booter, ddos, distributed denial of service, National Crime Agency, NCA, news, underground

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The British National Crime Agency has been setting up fake DDoS services to teach people a lesson in what not to do online.

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Online Safety Bill’s provisions for “legal but harmful” content described as “censor’s charter”

March 18, 2022 admin "legal but harmful", awareness, cyberflashing, free speech, jim killock, nadine dorries, National Crime Agency, NCA, ofcom, online safety bill, open rights group, org, the bill

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 16:02:28 +0000

The revised Online Safety Bill has just reached the UK parliament and its determination to tackle “legal but harmful” content is making waves.

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Leader of DDoS-for-Hire Gang Pleads Guilty to Bomb Threats

September 6, 2018 admin George Duke-Cohan, Lizard Squad, National Crime Agency, NCA, Ne'er-Do-Well News, protonmail

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2018 15:51:13 +0000

A 19-year-old man from the United Kingdom who headed a cybercriminal group whose motto was “Feds Can’t Touch Us” pleaded guilty this week to making bomb threats against thousands of schools. On Aug. 31, officers with the U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested Hertfordshire resident George Duke-Cohan, who admitted making bomb threats to thousands of schools and a United Airlines flight traveling from the U.K. to San Francisco last month.