“Federal Agency Breaches LockBit, but LockBit Prevails: What’s Next?”
Just five days on, LockBit announced that its operations had resumed, claiming to have restored from backups unaffected by the government takedown.
Law enforcement claiming overwhelming victory while the apparent LockBit ringleader remains at large, threatening retaliation, and targeting new victims puts the two at odds — for now.
With the apparent administrator LockBitSupp still in action — the last remaining piece of the LockBit puzzle — it’s unlikely LockBit is going away.
Ransomware gangs are known to quickly regroup and rebrand even after law enforcement disruption claims to have taken them down for good.
At the time of writing, ALPHV’s leak site remains up and running — and continues to add new victims almost daily.
