{"id":462,"date":"2024-10-02T10:45:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T10:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/?p=462"},"modified":"2024-10-02T10:45:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T10:45:14","slug":"lockbit-dismantling-progresses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"Lockbit dismantling progresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"grid grid--cols-10@md grid--cols-8@lg article-column\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-10@md col-6@lg col-start-3@lg\">\n<div class=\"article-column__content\">\n<div class=\"container\"><\/div>\n<p>Police authorities from 12 countries have carried out another concerted action as part of \u201cOperation Cronos.\u201d Mission-critical servers for the Lockbit infrastructure were shut down and four suspects said to be connected to the cybercriminals  were arrested, Europol said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLockBit power cut: Four new arrests and financial sanctions against affiliates,\u201c the European Union\u2019s law enforcement agency said in a tweet on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ransomware gangsters in the sights<\/h2>\n<p>As part of the current police action, the following actions were taken, Europol said:<\/p>\n<p>Lockbit\u2019s nine infrastructure servers were shut down,<\/p>\n<p>the operator of a Bulletproof hosting service in Spain was arrested,<\/p>\n<p>a Lockbit developer was arrested at the instigation of France, and<\/p>\n<p>two alleged affiliates of the ransomware gang were arrested in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, according to Europol, additional sanctions have been imposed by the US, Australia and the UK on a total of 24 Russian citizens \u2013 including an actor who is said to be close to both Lockbit and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csoonline.com\/article\/570361\/the-worst-and-most-notable-ransomware.html\">EvilCorp<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police authorities from 12 countries have carried out another concerted action as part of \u201cOperation Cronos.\u201d Mission-critical servers for the Lockbit infrastructure were shut down and four suspects said to be connected to the cybercriminals were arrested, Europol said in a news release. \u201cLockBit power cut: Four new arrests and financial sanctions against affiliates,\u201c the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cybersecurityinfocus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}