Hacking the hackers: How cyber gang Lockbit was ‘locked out’

One of the world’s most prolific cyber crime gangs has been taken down by legislation enforcement companies together with the FBI, Europol and the UK’s National Crime Agency.

Lockbit is an extortion web site that held its victims’ knowledge for ransom – a number of the largest UK our bodies affected had been the Royal Mail and the NHS.

Five Russians have been charged by US authorities and dozens of crypto accounts frozen.

On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson is joined by science and know-how editor Tom Clarke and crime correspondent Martin Brunt to debate what Lockbit is, Operation Cronos and what this implies for different cyber gangs.

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