Lockbit cybercrime gang disrupted by Britain, US and EU
London, UK Reuters Lockbit, a notorious cybercrime gang that holds its victims’ data to ransom, has been disrupted in a rare international law enforcement operation by Britain’s National Crime Agency, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Europol and a coalition of international police agencies, according to a post on the gang’s extortion website on Monday. […]
Alliance of 40 countries to vow not to pay ransom to cybercriminals, US says
San Francisco Reuters Forty countries in a US-led alliance plan to sign a pledge never to pay ransom to cybercriminals and to work toward eliminating the hackers’ funding mechanism, a senior White House official said on Tuesday. White House Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology, Anne Neuberger, addresses cyber security during the […]
Digital underbelly: As US cities embrace tech, cyberattacks pose real-world risks
JACK GRAHAM, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on rising concerns over cybersecurity…