LockBit, Law Enforcement, and You

A survey of modern cybercrime — from blue-box origins to the ransomware economy — covering motives, global impact, legal definitions and the organizations working to stop it.

Learn about the evolving ransomware landscape, including how attackers operate, the roles within the ransomware economy, and actionable strategies to strengthen your defenses.

Semperis argues that testing backups under ideal conditions creates only an illusion of resilience; real cyber resilience is about staying recoverable when the plan fails and the assumptions behind it collapse.

Semperis argues AI-driven attacks are outpacing identity teams as machine identities outnumber human ones 10:1, and urges building organization-wide cyber resilience around hybrid identity protection before the next crisis.

December 2023 roundup: LockBit hit German hospital group KHO, Clop's MOVEit breach claimed Delta Dental (7M customers), and BlackCat/ALPHV attacked Norton Healthcare and HTC Global Services.

May 2023 roundup: Black Basta hit ABB's Active Directory and Rheinmetall, LockBit claimed MCNA Dental (nearly 9 million patients), and ALPHV/BlackCat compromised Constellation Software.