After many months of taunting law enforcement and offering a million-dollar reward to anyone who could reveal his identity, the FBI and NCA have done just that, revealing the name of LockBitSupp, the operator of the LockBit ransomware operation.
On February 19, Operation Cronos
took down LockBit's infrastructure and converted its data leak site into a law enforcement press release site where they released information about the police actions.
After being inactive for months, the
site went live again on Sunday, teasing new information that would be released, including the possible identity of the LockBit admin.
On Tuesday, the NCA, Europol, and the FBI r
evealed the identity of LockBitSupp, a 31-year-old Russian national named Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.
Since then, the LockBit operation has been on a revenge spree,
leaking the names of 119 victims allegedly attacked by the ransomware operation.
While LockBitSupp says they are not going anywhere and will continue to conduct attacks, it would not be surprising to see them shut down and rebrand a new operation in the near future.
In other news, an attack on
healthcare giant Ascension has caused massive disruption to the healthcare system, causing ambulances to be diverted from several hospitals and systems offline, including medical records.
According to
CNN, the attack has been linked to the Black Basta ransomware operation.
Other ransomware attacks we learned more about this week are:
