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FBI Cyber Division Assistant Director Bryan Vorndran on June 5 highlighted the Bureau’s “ongoing disruption” of the LockBit ransomware group and its associates, and urged potential victims to contact the Bureau’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3).
The Bureau now has greater than 7,000 LockBit decryption keys in its possession, Vorndran stated in a keynote on the 2024 Boston Convention on Cyber Safety. We are able to use these keys to assist victims get their knowledge again, he famous. Potential victims can contact IC3 by visiting our LockBit Sufferer Reporting Kind at lockbitvictims.ic3.gov.
“We’re reaching out to recognized LockBit victims and inspiring anybody who suspects they have been a sufferer to go to our Web Crime Grievance Middle at ic3.gov,” he stated.
The LockBit ransomware variant has been utilized in over 2,400 cyberattacks around the globe—greater than 1,800 of which impacted victims within the U.S.—he stated. These assaults have focused numerous sectors and racked up “billions of {dollars} in damages,” Vorndran stated.
And, Vorndran famous, a latest worldwide “operation to disrupt and seize” LockBit infrastructure and to sanction the group and its associates revealed that the group and its associates retained sufferer knowledge, even after victims had paid them ransoms.
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