Lockbit, the cybercrime gang that was knocked offline by a comprehensive international police operation earlier this month, says it has restored its servers and is back in business.

In a statement announcing their return, Lockbit said that while their website had been taken down by law enforcement using a PHP vulnerability, “all other servers with backup blogs that did not have PHP installed are unaffected and will continue to give out data stolen from the attacked companies.”

The new Lockbit site shows a gallery of company names, each attached to a countdown clock marking the deadline within which that company was required to pay ransom.

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Facebook and Instagram owner Meta says it will form a team to tackle deceptive AI content in the upcoming EU elections in June.

The European Parliament vote will be held from 6 to 9 June this year and as with all modern elections, there are concerns that AI tech which can fake videos, images and audio – might be used to trick voters.

To counter this, Meta head of EU affairs Marco Pancini said in a blog post that the firm would launch “an EU-specific Elections Operations Centre” which would “identify potential threats and put specific mitigations in place across our apps and technologies in real time”.

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Security experts are warning that a pair of high-risk flaws in a popular remote access tool are being exploited by hackers to deploy LockBit ransomware.

Experts have observed LockBit attacks following the exploitation of a set of vulnerabilities impacting ConnectWise ScreenConnect, a widely used remote access tool used by IT technicians to provide remote technical support on customer systems.

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