Hackers threaten to release Trump documents from Georgia case if they don't get a ransom by Thursday
Jacob Shamsian Feb 28, 2024, 1:09 PM ET
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-georgia-documents-ransom-threat-fulton-county-hack-lockbit-2024-2?amp Hackers set a ransom deadline of Thursday morning to release Fulton County court documents.
They claim the documents include files related to the criminal case against Donald Trump.
The hacking group was shut down by law enforcement earlier this month, but they appear to be back up.
The hacking group responsible for taking down Fulton County's websites in Georgia is threatening to publish documents from the state's court system — including ones related to the criminal case against Donald Trump — unless it gets paid a ransom.
In a message posted online Saturday, in both English and Russian, the hacking group called LockBit said the stolen documents "contain a lot of interesting things and Donald Trump's court cases that could affect the upcoming US election."
Initially, LockBit set a Saturday, March 2, deadline for the payment, according to the cybersecurity reporter Christopher Krebs.
It has since moved up that deadline to 8:49 a.m. ET on Thursday, February 29, LockBit's restored website shows.
It's not clear how much money the group is demanding. The hacking group's demands are often negotiated in private, Dan Schiappa, the chief product officer at the cybersecurity firm Arctic Wolf, said.
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The group — led by a hacker using the pseudonym LockBitSupp — appeared to become operational again over the weekend after a February 20 law-enforcement raid. A group of agencies, including the FBI and the United Kingdom's National Crime Agency, took down 34 of its servers and changed its website to a series of messages bragging about the law-enforcement operation. The same day, the US Department of Justice unsealed an indictment accusing two Russian nationals of being involved in the group's hacking operations.
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The group doesn't always conduct hacks itself, according to law-enforcement agencies. It operates on a service model, in which it develops sophisticated ransomware hacking tools and leases them out to other hackers to deploy against targets, taking a cut of the ransom.
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Authorities appeared to negotiate with hackers earlier
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Schiappa, the Arctic Wolf executive, told Business Insider that there was nothing usual about the situation. LockBit might be attempting to maintain its credibility with its hacking affiliate organizations in the wake of the law-enforcement raid earlier this month, he said.
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The renewed ransom threat comes as Willis' investigation is beleaguered by a series of hearings playing out in a Fulton County courtroom.
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>>1272583 But Democrats said georgia had airtight governmental security
If hackers can do this just think about what they could do to our votes
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>>1272615 >Republicans in power >downsize government >refuse to pay for things >this happens Many such cases! SAD!
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>>1272615 Voting machines aren't connected to the internet, retard. Nor are they in a single location. Just look up this stuff
guess my name and it aint tRumpelstiltskin
guess my name and it aint tRumpelstiltskin Thu 29 Feb 2024 17:56:46 No. 1272626 Report >>1272583 >Maga Hackers - too stupid & unorganized to do this
+ "completely apolitical" (in the past)
Name=PUTIN
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>>1272626 >"Personally I will vote for Trump because the situation on the border with Mexico is some kind of nightmare, Biden should retire, he is a puppet," the message said. Anonymous
>>1272629 That's what makes people think it's Putin.
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>>1272631 Or.....it's a pro-coup maga terrorist. What's even the difference anymore?
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>>1272629 Sounds like stilted English to me.
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>>1272583 Meh at least its not Russian hackers this time amirite?
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>>1272984 It's literally Russian hackers
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>>1272984 >It's not clear which other organizations may be working with LockBit on the Fulton County hack. LockBit has claimed to be "completely apolitical" in the past, Oz Alashe, the CEO and founder of the cybersecurity firm CybSafe, said. But it is also deeply involved in the Russian cybercrime scene, Krebs said. Because it works with so many different affiliates, its motives are hard to discern, Alashe told Business Insider. Anonymous
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>>1272615 gosh maybe the whole ransom thing is fake and gay. quite the consideration.
