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Operation Cronos Leader Gets Nod From King Charles

Teri Robinson | January 12, 2026 | Critical Infrastructure, cyber warfare, Cybercrime Disruption, Cybercrime Fighting, Cybersecurity, Graeme Biggar, International Collaboration, King Charles, law enforcement, LockBit ransomware, National Crime Agency, OBE Award, Operation Cronos, Public Service., ransomware as a service, Sectigo, Strategic Coordination

Gavin Webb from the National Crime Agency receives the OBE award from King Charles for his strategic role in Operation Cronos, disrupting the LockBit ransomware group ...

Security Boulevard

Law Enforcement Pressure is Reshaping the Global Ransomware Threat Landscape

Check Point’s Q2 2025 Ransomware Report reveals the collapse of major RaaS groups like LockBit and RansomHub, giving rise to a new, fragmented wave of ransomware actors ...

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Bryan Vorndran, assistant director of the FBI’s Cyber Division, standing in front of a U.S. flag, looking stern

LockBit Victim? Ask FBI for Your Ransomware Key

Spy warez: Assistant director of the FBI’s Cyber Division Bryan Vorndran (pictured) might have the key to unscramble your files ...

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LockBit Ransomware Resurgence After Law Enforcement Takedown

Wajahat Raja | March 13, 2024 | cybercrime, Cybersecurity News, cybersecurity threats, dark web, Data breaches, encryption, law enforcement, LockBit ransomware, Operation Cronos, Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS), Tor Network

LockBit ransomware, which has also been known as “ABCD,” has resurfaced on the dark web despite being dealt with strictly by the global law enforcement task force. This development of LockBit ransomware ...

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This site is now under the control of The National Crime Agency of the UK, working in close cooperation with the FBI and the international law enforcement task force, “Operation Cronos”

LockBit Takedown by Brits — Time for ‘Operation Cronos’

Richi Jennings | February 20, 2024 | British, British intelligence, Infrastructure Takedown, Lockbit, LockBit ransomware, National Crime Agency, network takedown, Operation Cronos, SB Blogwatch, takedown, takedowns, U.K. National Crime Agency, uk, website takedown, website takedowns

RaaS nicked: 11-nation army led by UK eliminates ransomware-for-hire scrotes’ servers ...

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Operation Cronos

Senator Sanders Wants to Own AI Companies — and Hand America’s Adversaries the Keys

NIST’s Nine: The PQC Signature Race Moves to Round Three

The Quantum Arms Race: Why Washington Just Wrote a $2 Billion Check to Nine Companies

Beyond Moore’s Law: The Hyper-Acceleration of Autonomous AI Cyber Capabilities

The Exception Economy: When Security Teams Stop Protecting and Start Negotiating

GoPlus’s Latest Report Highlights How Blockchain Communities Are Leveraging Critical API Security Data To Mitigate Web3 Threats

C2A Security’s EVSec Risk Management and Automation Platform Gains Traction in Automotive Industry as Companies Seek to Efficiently Meet Regulatory Requirements

Zama Raises $73M in Series A Lead by Multicoin Capital and Protocol Labs to Commercialize Fully Homomorphic Encryption

RSM US Deploys Stellar Cyber Open XDR Platform to Secure Clients

ThreatHunter.ai Halts Hundreds of Attacks in the past 48 hours: Combating Ransomware and Nation-State Cyber Threats Head-On