While law enforcement disruptions certainly have a positive impact, there are deep-rooted difficulties in measuring substantial long-term changes.
The breadth of the takedown itself is multifaceted and impacts everything from LockBit’s infrastructure backbone to members’ ability to access cryptocurrency accounts linked to the ransomware group.
With ransomware payments hitting an all-time high in 2023, CISOs “need to concentrate on making their organizations a hard target.”
Cisco Talos researchers also said that Dutch law enforcement has identified and apprehended the threat actor behind Babuk Tortilla operations.
2023 was one of the crazier years in recent memory for security news, and we did our best to make sense of it all. We gathered some of our friends to talk about what the biggest stories of the year were and what we learned from them.