{"id":14608,"date":"2026-07-27T20:59:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/27\/fbi-breaking-affiliate-trust-lockbit-takedown\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T20:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T20:59:06","slug":"fbi-breaking-affiliate-trust-lockbit-takedown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/27\/fbi-breaking-affiliate-trust-lockbit-takedown\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI: Breaking Affiliate Trust Sped Along LockBit&#8217;s Takedown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>FBI: Breaking Affiliate Trust Sped Along LockBit&#8217;s Takedown<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>An FBI agent explains how the mulitnational law-enforcement Operation Cronos was successful in disrupting the largest ransomware group of its time.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Elizabeth Montalbano<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/cybersecurity-operations\/fbi-breaking-affiliate-trust-lockbit-takedown\">Go to gbhackers.com<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI: Breaking Affiliate Trust Sped Along LockBit&#8217;s Takedown An FBI agent explains how the mulitnational law-enforcement Operation Cronos was successful in disrupting the largest ransomware group of its time. Elizabeth Montalbano Go to gbhackers.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[261],"class_list":["post-14608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darkreading","tag-darkreading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}