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Raid on ALPHV or BlackCat group?
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The ALPHV and BlackCat leak sites have been disrupted for days. Some of them cannot be accessed or do not show any content. In darknet forums, admins from other APT groups claim that the servers have been taken over by ALPHV. The Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group ALPHV, also known as BlackCat, is a ransomware group that first emerged in November 2021. The group is known for carrying out sophisticated ransomware attacks on companies and organizations around the world. But for a few days now, the ransomware group's leak pages have either not been accessible or show no content. Darknet admins talk about…

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Are Many Companies Denying LockBit the Ransom?
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Once LockBit has encrypted a site and stolen its data, the group posts a payment request with a countdown on its leak page on the dark web. If you don't pay, you can download data there. A lot of companies don't pay. Many attacked companies are listed on the LockBit leak page. Current ransom payment deadlines are marked in red. If an ultimatum has expired and it has not been paid, LockBit will color the entry for the published data green. The leak page from July to December 2022 currently contains the information…

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Is Continental a victim of LockBit?
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While Continental already spoke in a statement on its website in August 2022 that the attack had been averted, the ransomware group LockBit announced on its leak page that data captured by Continental had been published. According to the chat log, apparently 40 terabytes of data. The APT group LockBit claims that it has successfully hacked and stolen data from the automotive supplier Continental. Now the data is to be published on the leak page, probably to increase the pressure on Continental. However, Continental has not published any information on a current attack. According to the chat log on the LockBit leak page,…

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