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Ransomware group

lockbit5

LockBit 5.0 ("ChuongDong") emerged in September 2025 as the group's resurgence following the February 2024 law enforcement takedown, introducing cross-platform payloads targeting Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi with enhanced evasion capabilities and continuing the RaaS affiliate model of its predecessors.

  • 2claims, 7 days
  • 26claims, 30 days
  • 68claims, 90 days
  • 2026-04-06first seen
  • 2026-11-04last seen

These are claims posted by the group on its leak site, counted when we first see them. They are not confirmed incidents, and we never name a victim.

Activity, last 26 weeks

New leak-site claims per week.

Week of 2026-05-11: 1Week of 2026-05-18: 15Week of 2026-05-25: 0Week of 2026-06-01: 0Week of 2026-06-08: 26Week of 2026-06-15: 35Week of 2026-06-22: 0Week of 2026-06-29: 0Week of 2026-07-06: 10Week of 2026-07-13: 0Week of 2026-07-20: 0Week of 2026-07-27: 9Week of 2026-08-03: 1Week of 2026-08-10: 5Week of 2026-08-17: 4Week of 2026-08-24: 6Week of 2026-08-31: 9Week of 2026-09-07: 5Week of 2026-09-14: 5Week of 2026-09-21: 4Week of 2026-09-28: 3Week of 2026-10-05: 6Week of 2026-10-12: 11Week of 2026-10-19: 6Week of 2026-10-26: 3Week of 2026-11-02: 1
Claims per week, oldest to newest. Each bar is a full Monday-to-Sunday week; the newest bar is the current week so far.

Sectors claimed, last 90 days

  1. Professional services 20
  2. Financial services 9
  3. Healthcare 7
  4. Manufacturing 5
  5. Retail 5
  6. Critical infrastructure 4
  7. Government 4
  8. Unclassified 3
  9. Technology 3
  10. Hospitality 2
  11. Construction 1
  12. Higher education 1
  13. K-12 education 1
  14. Nonprofit 1
  15. Other 1
  16. Transportation and logistics 1

Countries claimed, last 90 days

  1. United States 12
  2. Germany 7
  3. Netherlands 6
  4. Italy 5
  5. Brazil 4
  6. France 4
  7. Mexico 3
  8. Argentina 2
  9. Australia 2
  10. Thailand 2
  11. Belgium 1
  12. Chile 1
  13. Czechia 1
  14. Egypt 1
  15. Spain 1

Vulnerabilities lockbit5 exploits

Our sources do not attribute specific vulnerabilities to lockbit5 yet.

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Newest vulnerabilities used by any ransomware group (CISA KEV)
Added CVE Vendor / product Vulnerability
2026-08-18 CVE-2026-59310 Broadcom VMware vCenter Broadcom VMware vCenter Path Traversal Vulnerability
2026-08-05 CVE-2026-63077 JetBrains TeamCity JetBrains TeamCity Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability
2026-07-29 CVE-2026-20316 Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center Use of Hard-coded Password Vulnerability
2026-07-14 CVE-2026-15410 SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances Code Injection Vulnerability
2026-07-14 CVE-2026-15409 SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerability
2026-07-01 CVE-2026-45659 Microsoft SharePoint Server Microsoft SharePoint Server Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability
2026-06-25 CVE-2026-12569 PTC Windchill and FlexPLM PTC Windchill and FlexPLM Improper Input Validation Vulnerability
2026-06-12 CVE-2026-35273 Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools Missing Authentication for Critical Function Vulnerability

Data sources: CISA KEV, Ransomchats, RansomLook, Ransomware.live, security news outlets · updated 13 hours ago

Sector, country and ransom-demand figures are SecuritySnares estimates made with a language model. Leak-site listings are claims by threat actors and are not independently verified; leak-site victims are never named unless they have disclosed the incident themselves. News headlines are the publishers' own reporting, shown as written and linked to the original. Methodology