Infosec in brief The infamous LockBit ransomware gang has been busy in the ten days since an international law enforcement operation took down many of its systems. But despite their position, the gang may have suffered more than it sounds.
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While there have been plenty of revelations — and disappointments — since law enforcement seized LockBit's website and disrupted its operations on February 20, the gang has all but disappeared.
LockBit quickly set up a new website and updated it with a list of upcoming ransom deadlines for victims – one of which included data allegedly stolen from Fulton County, Georgia. Among that data, LockBit claimed, was information about former President Donald Trump's ongoing legal case in the county, which LockBit argued could have influenced the 2024 presidential election.
But the Feb. 29 deadline for Fulton County to pay the ransom came and went without any information being released. LockBit claimed that Fulton County paid the ransom to prevent data disclosure, but Fulton County officials protested that they did no such thing — nor did they use an intermediary to pay the group.
