World's Largest Ransomware Hacker Identified, Chinese Hack US Infrastructure

ANN ARBOR – Law enforcement agencies in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia today jointly named Russian national Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev as the alleged operator of the LockBitSupp account and the organizational mastermind behind the notorious group of LockBit ransomware, which has been on a hacking rampage for several years. exporting around $500 million from its victims. Cybersecurity experts Richard Stiennon and Dan Lohrmann join MITech TV to explain the importance.

The law enforcement takedown, dubbed Operation Cronos and led by the United Kingdom's National Crime Agency (NCA), essentially neutralized the hacking group and impacted the Russian cybercrime ecosystem across the board. together.

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray also said that hackers affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party are constantly targeting U.S. critical infrastructure, such as water treatment plants, the power grid, and oil and gas pipelines. Wray's testimony, before a House subcommittee on China, comes as the FBI also revealed that it had removed malware from hundreds of routers in homes and offices that had been planted by the group of Chinese Volt Typhoon hacking. Stiennon and Lohrmann also provide an analysis of this nation-state hacking.