Challenges Remain in Evaluating Ransomware Crackdowns

An international takedown operation targeting the LockBit ransomware group’s technical infrastructure, and hitting associated individuals with arrests, indictments and sanctions, was celebrated as a major win earlier this week.

However, questions remain about what types of long-term effects this law enforcement action will have, both on LockBit and on the ransomware threat landscape as a whole. Ransomware-as-a-service operations are distributed by nature, so even an operation as comprehensive as the one executed against the LockBit group isn't likely to completely …

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