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International effort dismantles LockBit. [Research Saturday]

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🗓️ 25 May 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Jon DiMaggio, a Chief Security Strategist at Analyst1, is sharing his work on "Ransomware Diaries Volume 5: Unmasking LockBit." On February 19, 2024, the National Crime Agency (NCA), a UK sovereign law enforcement agency, in collaboration with the FBI, Europol, and nine other countries under "Operation Cronos," disrupted the LockBit ransomware gang’s data leak site used for shaming, extorting, and leaking victim data. The NCA greeted visitors to LockBit’s dark web leak site with a seizure banner, revealing they had been controlling LockBit’s infrastructure for some time, collecting information, acquiring victim decryption keys, and even compromising the new ransomware payload intended for LockBit 4.0. The research can be found here: Ransomware Diaries Volume 5: Unmasking LockBit

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So about two years ago,

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I, before Lockby was really known who they are today, I started researching them after I got done with Reevil.

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And, you know, I somehow just got on the inside.

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That's John DiMaggio, chief security strategist at analyst 1.

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Today we're discussing his research, Ransomware Diaries, 5, unmasking lockbit. After I published the Ransommer Diaries Volume 1, they knew who I was, began using my face with their

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avatar on the dark web, so I started talking to them from there as myself, developed a relationship which led to a lot of the findings in my

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volumes of the Ransomware diaries after the first one.

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And you know, at times we were, you know, friendly, I mean you can't talk to somebody that much and not grow a relationship

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but I've always been out to get him I've always been honest about what my you know what my intent was so fast forward sort of to where we are now, you know, I wasn't

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