{"id":13403,"date":"2024-02-20T00:38:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T23:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/20\/prolific-cybercrime-gang-disrupted-by-joint-uk-us-and-eu-operation\/"},"modified":"2024-02-20T00:38:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T23:38:09","slug":"prolific-cybercrime-gang-disrupted-by-joint-uk-us-and-eu-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/20\/prolific-cybercrime-gang-disrupted-by-joint-uk-us-and-eu-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Prolific cybercrime gang disrupted by joint UK, US and EU operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LockBit\u2019s website under control of security agencies from both sides of Atlantic, according to post<\/p>\n<p>LockBit, a notorious cybercrime gang that holds its victims\u2019 data to ransom, has been disrupted in a rare international law enforcement operation by Britain\u2019s National Crime Agency, the FBI, Europol and a coalition of international police agencies, according to a post on the gang\u2019s extortion website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis site is now under the control of the National Crime Agency of the UK, working in close cooperation with the FBI and the international law enforcement taskforce \u2018Operation Cronos\u2019,\u201d the post said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/feb\/19\/prolific-cybercrime-gang-lockbit-disrupted-uk-us-eu-operation-cronos\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6c90b34d36bbba952fd04ec1b24eff80a8ef7075\/0_134_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=902df0579472ab92b7dd52dc24f2d011\" title=\"Prolific cybercrime gang disrupted by joint UK, US and EU operation\" \/>LockBit\u2019s website under control of security agencies from both sides of Atlantic, according to post<br \/>\nLockBit, a notorious cybercrime gang that holds its victims\u2019 data to ransom, has been disrupted in a rare international law enforcement operation by Britain\u2019s National Crime Agency, the FBI, Europol and a coalition of international police agencies, according to a post on the gang\u2019s extortion website.<br \/>\n\u201cThis site is now under the control of the National Crime Agency of the UK, working in close cooperation with the FBI and the international law enforcement taskforce \u2018Operation Cronos\u2019,\u201d the post said on Monday. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LockBit\u2019s website under control of security agencies from both sides of Atlantic, according to post LockBit, a notorious cybercrime gang that holds its victims\u2019 data to ransom, has been disrupted in a rare international law enforcement operation by Britain\u2019s National Crime Agency, the FBI, Europol and a coalition of international police agencies, according to a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/20\/prolific-cybercrime-gang-disrupted-by-joint-uk-us-and-eu-operation\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Prolific cybercrime gang disrupted by joint UK, US and EU operation<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13403"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}