2025-01-03
13 分钟From Recorded Future News and PRX, this is click here.
It feels like 2025 may be a really good year for cyber.
I am cautiously optimistic that we will all be a little bit safer and a little bit more secure.
Wow.
An optimistic foreign from Recorded Future News.
I'm Dina Temple Roston, and this is Clickier's Mic Drop, an extended cut of an interview that we think you might want to hear a little more of.
And today we want to talk about how 2024 provided the first indication that law enforcement was starting to get its arms around the problem of ransomware.
And the first glimmer of hope came in February when law enforcement in the US And UK took aim at a group called Lockbit.
The FBI says it infiltrated one of the world's most prolific hacker gangs and shut down its site on the Dark Web.
It's been a crazy year.
It's shocked everyone.
It turns out that was the beginning of a banner year of cybercriminal takedowns that force cybercriminals to completely restructure the way they operate.
Which is why we called Alexander Leslie.
He's a threat intelligence analyst at Recorded Future.
Recorded Future News is an editorially independent arm of the company.
And he said that 2024 was like nothing he'd ever seen before.
Every time a new seizure comes out, everyone's like, immediately on social media, freaking out, talking about if we knew anyone, like, going back retroactively through leaks and reports and like, oh, my gosh, all of this makes sense.
Now in 2025, he expects law enforcement to crack down on cybercriminals even more.
Stay with foreign.
I'm Dina Templewrest and this is Click Here's Mic Drop.