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Dark web marketplace interface in ruins with seized banners overlaid, LockBit's reputation metrics plummeting on charts, ransom payment flows cut off, server eq
Ransomware

How the FBI Took Down LockBit by Destroying the One Thing Criminals Can't Easily Replace: Trust

Operation Cronos didn't just seize servers. It turned LockBit's own website against its partners, shattered the group's reputation, and cut US ransom payments by 79 percent in the second half of 2024.

4 min read
Illustration: a darkened server room with rows of rack servers, red status lights dimmed
Threat Intelligence

German and US police pull the plug on Kratos, a phishing kit rented to 1,800 crooks

Investigators seized more than 200 servers and arrested the developer in Indonesia, ending a service that ran roughly 15,000 fake Microsoft login campaigns every month.

3 min read
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