U.S. Offers $15 Million Bounty to Hunt Down LockBit Ransomware Leaders

The report summarizes an international law-enforcement campaign (Operation Cronos) that disrupted the LockBit ransomware-as-a-service operation by seizing darknet domains and servers, arresting affiliates, recovering ~1,000 decryption keys, and prompting a US State Department reward offer; it also documents LockBit's large-scale impact (thousands of global attacks and over $100M in ransoms/damages), its affiliate-driven RaaS model and tools like StealBit, and that the group began re-emerging with new infrastructure shortly after the takedown.