Lockbit cybercrime gang disrupted by Britain, US and EU
Lockbit, a notorious cyber crime gang that holds its victims' data to ransom, has been disrupted in a rare international law enforcement operation, the gang and US and UK authorities said on Monday. The operation was run by Britain’s National Crime Agency, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Europol and a coalition of international police agencies, according to a post on the gang’s extortion website. "This site is now under the control of the National Crime Agency of the UK, working in close cooperation with the FBI and the international law enforcement task force, ‘Operation Cronos’," the post said. An NCA spokesperson and a US Department of Justice spokesperson confirmed that the agencies had disrupted the gang and said the operation was "ongoing and developing". Officials in the United States, where Lockbit has hit more than 1,700 organisations in nearly every industry from financial services and food to schools, transportati...