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And Then There Were Three: Two More Financial Firms Attacked by LockBit3.0

Bloomberg reports:

The criminal ransomware gang behind the recent attack on the Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. has claimed responsibility for two more hacks on US financial firms.

The Lockbit gang added the Chicago Trading Company and Alphadyne Asset Management this week to a list of victims on its darkweb page. The gang has given them deadlines to make an unspecified payment, and is threatening to publish stolen data online if its demands aren’t met

As is often the case, neither firm seemed to officially confirm any attack.

Read more at Bloomberg Law.