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Operation Cronos and the LockBit takedown: What we know
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The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA), in collaboration with the U.S., Canada and eight other international partners shared a major update this past Tuesday regarding Operation Cronos, the international disruption campaign created to take down the LockBit ransomware group. The government action successfully compromised LockBit’s “entire criminal enterprise” by infiltrating the group’s network, taking control of its services, and accessing its source code, as well as other important intelligence.
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