FBI: Breaking Affiliate Trust Was Key to LockBit's Takedown
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Feed Name: CosmicBytez Labs
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Operation Cronos was a February 2024 multinational law enforcement operation that dismantled core LockBit infrastructure, seized servers and wallets, obtained and published affiliate identities and admin data, released over 1,000 decryptors to victims, and publicly named leadership; the combined technical and psychological attacks on LockBit’s RaaS affiliate trust network caused a sharp decline in LockBit activity and reshaped the ransomware ecosystem as affiliates migrated to competing platforms.
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