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The US isn’t done cracking down on the LockBit ransomware group.

The Department of State is offering up to $15 million in rewards for information that leads to the arrest or conviction of anyone who’s been involved in the ransomeware attacks with LockBit.

The announcement comes one day after law enforcement agencies said they’d disrupted the group and gotten the keys to decrypt hacked data.

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