The gang also promised to share over torrent 300GB of data stolen from Entrust so “the whole world will know your secrets.” “I am looking for dudosers in the team, most likely now we will attack targets and provide triple extortion, encryption + date leak + dudos, because I have felt the power of dudos and how it invigorates and makes life more interesting,” LockBitSupp wrote in a post on a hacker forum. LockBitSupp said that the ransomware operator is now looking to add DDoS as an extortion tactic on top of encrypting data and leaking it.

The DDoS attack last weekend that put a temporary stop to leaking Entrust data was seen as an opportunity to explore the triple extortion tactic to apply more pressure on victims to pay a ransom. LockBit getting into DDoSĮarlier this week, LockBitSupp, the public-facing figure of the LockBit ransomware operation, announced that the group is back in business with a larger infrastructure to give access to leaks unfazed by DDoS attacks. This did not happen, though, because the gang’s leak site was hit by a DDoS attack believed to be connected to Entrust. The company confirmed the incident and that data had been stolen.Įntrust did not pay the ransom and LockBit announced that it would publish all the stolen data on August 19.

The gang has recently suffered a DDoS attack, allegedly on behalf of digital security giant Entrust, that prevented access to data published on its corporate leaks site.ĭata from Entrust was stolen by LockBit ransomware in an attack on June 18, according to a BleepingComputer source. LockBit ransomware gang announced that it is improving defenses against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and working to take the operation to triple extortion level.

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