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Lockbit, the most-wanted ransomware gang, has been nabbed with the help of a joint venture between the US, EU, and Britain.

Operation Cronos, a collab between authorities in the US, Canada, UK, Europe, Japan, and Australia — seizes data and website associated with the prolific cybercriminal organization and its affiliates.

An international operation led by UK and US law enforcement has severely disrupted "the worlds most harmful cybercrime group", the Russian-linked ransomware specialist LockBit, officials announced Tuesday.

London: Britain s National Crime Agency on Tuesday said it had disrupted the world s most harmful cyber crime group in an international operation ta...

An international operation led by UK and US law enforcement has severely disrupted "the world's most harmful cybercrime group," the Russian-linked ransomware specialist LockBit, officials announced Tuesday.

Alleged Russian ransomware raiders arrested and charged as UK and US level LockBit gang

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…

U.S. and British officials on February 20 announced that they had infiltrated and disrupted a Russian-linked ransomware cybercrime group known as LockBit, arresting two Russian nationals in Poland and Ukraine, and indicting two others in the United States.

The United States will announce new sanctions on Russia on February 23 over the death of opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, the White House said on February 20.

Lockbit, a notorious cybercrime gang that holds its victims' data for ransom, has been disrupted in a rare international law enforcement operation by Britain’s National Crime Agency, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Europol and a coalition of international police agencies, according to a post on the gang’s extortion website on Monday. “This site is…