I think this will definitely put the rest of LockBit on red alert, if you will. The DoJ has issued a package of sanctions alongside this bounty, which was to freeze assets and impose travel bans on anyone named to be affiliated with LockBit. So a lot of the cases where previous arrests were made, where cyber criminals had left Russia and were sort of caught on holiday or reveling in Monaco, I think that's less likely now. They're probably going to be living undercover due to this heightened attention they're getting receiving.
The NCA released information on how many affiliates were working for LockBit and how they were involved in LockBit's operations. So I think in total there, they found evidence of 194 affiliates working with LockBit: 46 of these never built an attack, 29 had no victims enter negotiations to pay a ransom and a further 39 negotiated with targets but never got paid. I think what's interesting about that is being a ransomware affiliate, therefore, is quite an uncertain and precarious position. You don't know where your next paycheck might come from.
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