Russian Hackers hold Fulton County to Ransom

[Bray123]

https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/26/lockbit_back_in_action/

LockBit claims it's back in action just days after an international law enforcement effort seized the ransomware gang's servers and websites, and retrieved more than 1,000 decryption keys to assist victims.

The crew's latest leak site, which debuted on Saturday, listed more than a dozen alleged victims including the FBI itself, hospitals, and Georgia's Fulton County, which is still struggling to recover from the intrusion that disrupted its phone, email and other IT systems in late January.

LockBit claimed to be responsible for the Fulton County break-in before the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) and US FBI took down its infrastructure last week. The Georgia county, however, has reappeared on the crew's Tor site, with a countdown clock set to expire on March 2 unless government officials pay the ransom demand.

The criminal gang claims to have a trove of Fulton confidential data such as the identities of jurors serving on a murder trial that "could put lives at risk and jeopardize a number of other criminal trials," according to Krebs on Security.

I'm trying to think which criminal needs quick cash and has an interest in disclosing the details of jurors and witnesses?

 

[Escierto]

What's interesting to me is the fact that many of these cyber criminals are based in Russia and attack US companies. Yet these same executives will be donating money to the biggest Russian enabler, the Orange Jesus himself. Personally I think if you donate money to this POS I hope Russian hackers destroy your company.

 

[Ciceri]

I've known since '18 Russian thugs have been behind the Kompromat, intimidation and disinformation. It's a covert act of war (quickly becoming overt).