
By last week, it said LockBit was leaking stolen Entrust data. News of LockBit's ransomware attack on Entrust was first reported by Bleeping Computer on July 22. The company didn't respond to a request for comment about whether it had any role in the DDoS attack. Numerous governments and financial services firms are customers of the company, which reports having customers across 150 countries.

Lockbit: /HUO2hdTbwz- vx-underground August 21, 2022īased in Shakopee, Minnesota, privately held Entrust is a major security provider, supplying both software and hardware that gets used to issue payment cards, create passport and provide user authentication. Vx-underground: "How do you know it's because of the Entrust breach?" Lockbit: "We're being DDoS'd because of the Entrust hack" LockBit strongly suspects the DDoS attack traces to its breach of Entrust, based on what appears to be a reverse-proxy server log. "We all know these sites are MacGyvered together with bailing wire and toothpicks and are rickety as hell."Īs of Tuesday, visitors to LockBit's Tor-based site were still seeing only a page with a header that reads "LockBit Anti-DDoS" and contains a simple text message: "Does anyone know a good torrent tracker where I can upload greedy com files? Please write to tox," and lists an address for the Tox peer-to-peer messaging app, which includes end-to-end encryption.

"I asked LockBitSupp about it and they claim that they're getting 400 requests a second from over 1,000 servers," he says. LockBit's site has been inaccessible for several days, with administrator "LockBitSUpp" blaming a DDoS attack, Azim Shukuhi, a security researcher at Cisco Talos, reported Friday. See Also: Webinar | Prevent, Detect & Restore: Data Security Backup Systems Made Easy Ransomware karma: The notorious LockBit 3.0 ransomware gang's site has been disrupted via a days-long distributed-denial-of-service attack.
