LockBit ransomware admin identified, sanctioned in US, UK, Australia

Law enforcement agencies (FBI, UK NCA, Europol, DOJ) have identified and sanctioned the LockBit administrator Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev and charged multiple affiliates; Operation Cronos disrupted LockBit infrastructure, recovered roughly 2,500 decryption keys, and enabled victim recovery. The report outlines LockBit's history as a RaaS since 2019, claims of hundreds of millions to over a billion dollars extorted, approximately 7,000 attacks between 2022–2024, and notes that despite disruptions the group has continued activity and data leaks.