One of the world’s most prolific cyber crime gangs has been taken down by regulation enforcement companies together with the UK’s National Crime Agency.
Lockbit is an extortion web site that held its victims’ information for ransom. Some of the largest UK our bodies have been affected by their actions, together with the Royal Mail and the NHS.
Five Russians have been charged by US authorities and dozens of crypto accounts frozen.
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by science and expertise editor Tom Clarke and crime correspondent Martin Brunt to debate what Lockbit is, Operation Cronos and what this implies for different cyber gangs.
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