{"id":7695,"date":"2023-01-14T17:45:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T08:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/?p=7695"},"modified":"2023-02-06T17:50:17","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T08:50:17","slug":"lockbit-ransomware-operation-claims-cyber-attack-against-royal-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/lockbit-ransomware-operation-claims-cyber-attack-against-royal-mail\/","title":{"rendered":"LockBit ransomware operation claims cyber attack against Royal Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7695\" class=\"elementor elementor-7695\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-984ebc6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"984ebc6\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-dfb006f\" data-id=\"dfb006f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-39c4665 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"39c4665\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>On Wednesday 11<sup>th<\/sup> of January 2023, the UK&#8217;s largest mail delivery service, Royal Mail disclosed a cyber attack against them that forced them to halt their international shipping services. Then on Thursday 12<sup>th<\/sup> of January 2023, it was reported by news outlets that the cyber attack was confirmed to be a ransomware attack by an individual using the LockBit 3.0 encryptor. This confirmation came after ransom notes were being printed out where the notes included multiple links to the LockBit ransomware operation&#8217;s Tor data leak sites and negotiation sites.<\/p><p>Initially, the LockBit ransomware gang denied responsibility for the cyber attack against Royal Mail, and they blamed it on other threat actors using their leaked builder which was leaked in September 2022 via Twitter. However, the LockBit operation has now confirmed that it is behind the attack on Royal Mail in a post to a Russian-speaking hacking forum as they publicly stated that they determined which affiliate conducted the attack and will only provide a decryptor and delete stolen data after a ransom is paid.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday 11th of January 2023, the UK&#8217;s largest mail delivery service, Royal Mail disclosed a cyber attack against them that forced them to halt their international shipping services. Then on Thursday 12th of January 2023, it was reported by news outlets that the cyber attack was confirmed to be a ransomware attack by an individual using the LockBit 3.0<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,2,7,8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest_news","category-read_article","category-ce_news","category-by_country","category-industry_sector","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cyberenso.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Picture2.jpg?fit=1377%2C1034&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7695"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7702,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695\/revisions\/7702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyberenso.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}