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FBI recovers 7,000 LockBit keys, urges ransomware victims to reach out (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/16854076

The FBI urges past victims of LockBit ransomware attacks to come forward after revealing that it has obtained over 7,000 LockBit decryption keys that they can use to recover encrypted data for free.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

.........feels like a trap.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Only thing I can think of to make this a trap is if some company has a legal requirement to report the digital intrusion and didn't.