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Lockbit attacks Lisbon port
5 January 2023
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The port of Lisbon is part of Portugal's critical infrastructure. It has now been revealed that Lockbit has hacked the port's controlling systems and is now demanding a ransom of $1,5 million. As early as Christmas, the LockBit ransomware group launched a cyberattack on the port operator Port of Lisbon Administration (APL), Portugal's third largest port. According to the Portuguese government, the port is part of Portugal's critical infrastructure. Although the port of Lisbon is only the third largest in the country, its strategic location and its services for cargo, container and…

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Threat Report 2023: Cybercrime as Big Business
19 December 2022
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Threat Report 2023: Cybercrime as Big Business

Cybercrime is increasingly flourishing as a business model, ransomware and ransomware-as-a-service are innovation drivers and stolen access data are increasingly acting as a cash cow. According to Sophos, the year 2023 also awaits companies in cyber defense. Sophos has published its 2023 Threat Report. Among other things, the report describes a new degree of commercialization within cybercrime, as a result of which low-threshold introductory offers are increasingly available for potential attackers: almost all scenarios can be bought. A booming cybercrime-as-a-service market caters to a criminal audience ranging from the highly tech-savvy to the completely ignorant. The topics of the current Sophos threat…

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Are Many Companies Denying LockBit the Ransom?
16 December 2022
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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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LockBit lowers Continental data price to $40 million
5 December 2022
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LockBit lowers Continental data price to $40 million

LockBit stole over 40.000 gigabytes of data in its ransomware attack on Continental. Also included: confidential documents from VW, BMW, Mercedes. Now LockBit is lowering the price for the data from $50 million to $40 million. Continental will probably not calm down anytime soon. After the data was stolen by the ransomware group LockBit, more and more information is coming to the public. At first it seems that Continental has negotiated the buyback of the data. But then again not anymore. After some parts of the data were published, as well as a file list, it became clear that among them...

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Continental Hack: Also VW and Mercedes documents at LockBit   
25 November 2022
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Continental Hack: Also VW and Mercedes documents at LockBit

The ransomware attack on Continental also stole over 40.000 gigabytes of data. Because Continental didn't pay any data ransom. The data probably includes confidential documents from VW, BMW and Mercedes. In addition, the FBI is now also involved with Continental. The manufacturer Continental has still not published a statement on the ransomware attack and the theft of over 40.000 gigabytes of data. Unlike LockBit: some of the data is available on their leak page. An overview of all existing data should be found in a packed directory. According to various media,…

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LockBit 3.0 publishes data from medical technology companies
22 November 2022
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LockBit had already attacked the medium-sized medical technology company Richard Wolf at the beginning of November, partially encrypting the systems and looting data. Since the company refused to pay, the stolen data is now on the dark web. The globally active, medium-sized medical technology company Richard Wolf fell victim to a successful LockBit 3 attack on November 3.0rd. This was followed in a classic process by encrypting some systems and extracting some data. No ransom paid to LockBit However, the company did not agree to the blackmail and did not pay any ransom. Meanwhile, LockBit has the…

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Hacker: LockBit 3.0 offers Continental file list for download
15 November 2022
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According to the chat log of the LockBit leak site, the hacker group claims to have stolen a total of 40 TB of data from Continental. Since the requested 50 million dollars were probably not paid, there is now a file list of more than 400 MB for free download on the Darknet. LockBit probably wants to make the stolen Continental data palatable to buyers. Therefore, the group offers a packed file list on its website that is over 400 MB in size. It probably contains an overview of all files, their names and the names of the project directories. Initially, 50 million...

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Ransomware Report: LockBit remains the most dangerous
14 November 2022
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LockBit remains the leader among groups selling ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) in October. This is what the Malwarebytes ransomware report for October shows. Even the dangerous groups Black Basta or ALPHV do not attack companies so en masse. Malwarebytes' threat intelligence team attributed 59 attacks to the LockBit ransomware group in the last month (compared to 109 attacks in September 2022 and 62 attacks in August 2022). Karakurt and ALPHV land in second place in October, with 28 attacks each. Black Basta takes third place with 25 attacks. LockBit replaces Conti which...

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Thales: Weapon manufacturer data published by LockBit
14 November 2022
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If you believe the screenshots and the ZIP files provided, then LockBit has published the data captured from the weapons manufacturer Thales - or at least parts of it. Thales has not yet released an official statement on the hack. On the Lockbit leak page, the hackers show several screenshots that are said to come from the captured data from the weapons manufacturer Thales. Site plans of military installations can be seen, as well as the structure and equipment of a building with radar, radio towers and offices - right down to the mobile toilet. The other images also show diagrams or lists. On…

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LockBit wants to release 40 TB of data from Continental
10 November 2022
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There is still no official confirmation of a LockBit hacking attack on Continental. If the chat log on the LockBit leak page is genuine, then the transfer of 40 TB of data was negotiated. According to the hacker, the pure file list of the data alone should have a volume of 8 GB. A chat log was recently found on the LockBit page. At some point, whoever was chatting with the LockBit hackers simply stopped responding. First, however, there was a conversation in which the hacker talked about the data...

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