The world is yet to rid itself of Lockbit, one of the biggest cyber-criminal gangs in the world. A week after an international law enforcement exercise confiscated the ransomware group’s website and seized control of its servers, the notorious gang has resurfaced on the dark web, using new site and new infrastructure.
The security website Bleeping Computer reports that gang has announced that it will continue with ransomware and has published a massage on its new site where the group says that mistakes were made and that ‘nonchalance and a lack of responsibility’ led to police services being able to disrupt the group’s activities.
One of the larger ransomware groups in the world Lockbit A week ago, international law enforcement exercise took over about 34 of the group’s servers, hosting the data leak website. This allowed them to take over stolen data, decryption keys and cryptocurrency addresses. Websites on which the group posts leaks and urges victims to pay were also taken down.
The Lockbit moved its data leak site to a new .onion address that lists five victims with countdown timers for publishing stolen information.
The administrator behind LockBit said law enforcement agencies were able to confiscate some of their websites due to the delay in updating PHP protocols on these websites. Other backup systems without PHP were untouched.
Lockbit group has threaten to focus more of their attacks on the government sector.
