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‘FBI pwned me’: Lockbit cybercrime gang faces global takedown with indictments and arrests — 200 crypto wallets frozen, 11000 domains seized, 14000 rouge accounts closed (www.reuters.com)

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‘FBI pwned me’: Lockbit cybercrime gang faces global takedown with indictments and arrests — 200 crypto wallets frozen, 11000 domains seized, 14000 rouge accounts closed::An international law enforcement operation led by Britain's National Crime Agency and the FBI has arrested and indicted members of the Lockbit ransomware gang, in an unprecedented police operation that has struck one of the world's most notorious cybercrime gangs.

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[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Reminds me of the difference between a pirate (the boat using kind) and a privateer - who was a pirate that didn't attack anyone from their own country, so their government gave them the permission to do it.
Russian and Chinese hackers are hard to pin down because they are beneficial to those governments, so you usually won't get any help catching them.

These two were caught in Poland and Ukraine. Had they still been in Russia, they would most likely never have been arrested.