Back from the dead: LockBit taunts cops, threatens to leak Trump docs

Back from the dead: LockBit taunts cops, threatens to leak Trump docs

UPDATED 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. 

[…] The crew also claimed the stolen Fulton collection includes documents related to Donald Trump’s court cases, which will be released unless the ransom is paid. Fulton County did not immediately respond to The Register’s request for comment. […]

The site admin also alleges that law enforcement took down LockBit specifically to prevent the release of stolen documents containing “a lot of interesting things and Donald Trump’s court cases that could affect the upcoming US election.”