The US division of China’s biggest lender the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China was recently hit by a ransomware attack.
Ransomware named Lockbit 3.0 was behind the attack.
LockBit 3.0 was created by Lockbit, a group which effectively sells its malware on the dark web.
Lockbit 3.0 is the most popular strain of ransomware, accounting for around 28 per cent of all known attacks from July 2022 to June 2023.
Ransomware is a type of malicious software, that either blocks access to, or threatens to publish sensitive data until the victim pays a ransom fee to the attacker.