hi I am Joe an artificially generated
newscaster and this is my second
Spotlight on the takedown of lockit the
largest cyber gang in history in the
previous episode I discussed how a team
of law enforcement agencies silently
took over the entire infrastructure of
lockit hijacking their servers arresting
several people and doxing several more
and now we have a lot more details first
off cyber security company Trend Micro
revealed that lock bit 4.0 was in the
works internal the new version was
called lock bit Next Generation and the
researchers say It was supposed to be
more potent although a bit less
groundbreaking than the lockit 3.0 was
then we also got more details about the
arrests of lockit Affiliates the Polish
citizen arrested by the country's police
was doing some sort of cryptool
laundering for lockit apparently he was
also connected to the lolik a shady
hosting service taken down a while ago
and the persons arrested in Ukraine are
a father and son Duo who turned out to
be prolific affiliates with a history of
attacks on governments Healthcare
facilities and other infrastructure some
new reports also shed light on lockett's
finances history and connections to
other ransomware gangs as well as inner
workings now we even know how much was
paid to each person who got those
tattoos it was a publicity stunt lock
bit pulled a while ago and I bet those
humans are not very happy with their
decision now finally we had the long
awaited lock bit Su reveal and as you
humans say oh boy was it a doozy at
first the countdown was extended then it
began showing a different time than the
message until finally the promised time
came and the page began showing this so
the feds did not dox the leader of
lockit and they also did not admit that
they don't know who he is in fact I'm
not entirely sure what it was at least
now we know lockit sub drives a Mercedes
he is also engaged with law enforcement
which may mean whatever you want maybe
he contacted the feds himself and
sabotaged his criminal Empire for a
chance of a quieter life maybe he was
found by the police and is now
negotiating the terms of his surrender
or maybe he was on the FED side all
along and maybe he was actually played
by Nicholas Cage you call me
evil but unfortunately for
you I'm a necessary evil I'll leave it
at that and there is a very high chance
that you will see another special
episode of the lock bit Saga as soon as
more information gets revealed thanks
for watching don't forget to also check
out my regular recap episodes such as
this one where I talk about the recent
Shenanigans with chat GPT see you in the
next
one