{"id":13687,"date":"2024-03-13T03:37:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T02:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/how-an-infamous-ransomware-gang-found-itself-hacked-podcast\/"},"modified":"2024-03-13T03:37:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T02:37:20","slug":"how-an-infamous-ransomware-gang-found-itself-hacked-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/how-an-infamous-ransomware-gang-found-itself-hacked-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"How an infamous ransomware gang found itself hacked \u2013 podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LockBit was a sophisticated criminal operation, offering the tools needed to steal a company\u2019s data and hold it to ransom. Then it was itself hacked. <strong>Alex Hern <\/strong>reports<\/p>\n<p>A ransomware site on the dark web has allowed criminals to extort hospitals, businesses and schools for years. By encrypting data or threatening to post data online, hackers have cost companies millions of pounds.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called LockBit, and it was very successful until one day last month when hackers who logged on to the site found it had been hacked by authorities including the UK National Crime Agency and the FBI. These agencies announced they were in control of LockBit\u2019s site, marking a new stage in their war on cybercrime.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/audio\/2024\/mar\/13\/how-an-infamous-ransomware-gang-found-itself-hacked-lockbit-podcast\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e5591b59c0744fa1f43faef90d6bc7288802352a\/47_0_1297_778\/master\/1297.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9c5320f5d5cc4bc5d50715e0553340fd\" title=\"How an infamous ransomware gang found itself hacked \u2013 podcast\" \/>LockBit was a sophisticated criminal operation, offering the tools needed to steal a company\u2019s data and hold it to ransom. Then it was itself hacked. Alex Hern reports<br \/>\nA ransomware site on the dark web has allowed criminals to extort hospitals, businesses and schools for years. By encrypting data or threatening to post data online, hackers have cost companies millions of pounds.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s called LockBit, and it was very successful until one day last month when hackers who logged on to the site found it had been hacked by authorities including the UK National Crime Agency and the FBI. These agencies announced they were in control of LockBit\u2019s site, marking a new stage in their war on cybercrime. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LockBit was a sophisticated criminal operation, offering the tools needed to steal a company\u2019s data and hold it to ransom. Then it was itself hacked. Alex Hern reports A ransomware site on the dark web has allowed criminals to extort hospitals, businesses and schools for years. By encrypting data or threatening to post data online, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/13\/how-an-infamous-ransomware-gang-found-itself-hacked-podcast\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How an infamous ransomware gang found itself hacked \u2013 podcast<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13688,"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\/13687"}],"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=13687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}