At the end of June, The Record first reported that the builder for the Babuk Locker ransomware was leaked online allowing threat actors to use it to create their own version of the popular ransomware.
The Babuk Locker operators halted their operations at the end of April after the attack against the Washington, DC police department. Experts believe that the decision of the group to leave the ransomware practice could be the result of an operational error, it was a bad idea to threaten the US police department due to the information that it manages.
