LockBit ransomware for Macs

Read the article, but the headline here tells you nearly everything you need to need to know. Ransomware for Macs. LockBit ransomware encryptors found targeting Mac devices (bleepingcomputer.com) This is the first time the prolific LockBit ransomware gang have deployed encryption malware that operates on Apple’s MacOS.

Ransomware is never far from the news

Threat actors have been taking advantage of an exploited set of Microsoft credentials to embed ransomware attacks into signed drivers: Microsoft-signed malicious Windows drivers used in ransomware attacks (bleepingcomputer.com) And LockBit got through the cyber security defences of California’s Department of Finance: LockBit claims attack on California’s Department of Finance …

New ransomwareattacks following the leak of LockBit software by a hacker insider

I reported on the information leak that LockBit suffered when one of the hacker developers has a spat and leaked the software code. Security software vendors would have been checking out this code to improve their defences but there was also the opportunity for less experienced hackers to improve their …