Yo. Wake the f*ck up, net-scrollers.
The digital war gods just dropped a fat payload, and it ain’t no game mod or data hoax — it’s real-world fallout. A crew going by Interlock just lit up West Lothian Council like it was a test server with no firewall. Outcome? 3.3 million files — nuked, zipped, and sprayed across the darknet like confetti at a funeral.
🎭 The Crew
Interlock ain’t your everyday script kiddie syndicate. They’ve been lurking since late ‘24, and according to intel drip from KELA, they’ve chalked up about 30 confirmed skulls — from bio labs to finance suits. They ain’t picky. They’re in it to expose what they call “reckless data hoarders.” Cute philosophy — but make no mistake, this ain’t activism. It’s digital war.
💾 The Payload
This ain’t no clipboard dump. We’re talkin’ 2.6 terabytes of raw ghost-data — 580k folders, 3.3 mil files. Passports, spreadsheets, driver IDs, and probably some poor bastard’s secret love letters to HR. It’s all out there now, in the underlayers of Ransom-DB and their own cozy lil’ leak haven — Worldwide Secrets Blog. Not indexed. Not public. Only crawlable by those of us who walk the shadows.
🔐 The Vectors
According to the cyber-forensics freaks over at Talos (Cisco’s threat boys), Interlock runs a tight killchain:
- RATs masquerading as browser updates
- PowerShell scripts with attitude
- Custom keyloggers and credential vultures
- And finally — the crown jewel — an encryptor binary that locks systems tighter than a vault in Moscow.
Sound familiar? Yeah — Rhysida vibes. Talos called it “low confidence,” but street noise says otherwise. Could be ex-Rhysida crew gone rogue. Russia or CIS-based? Probably. But like always — no heat on home turf. That’s the unspoken rule.
💸 The Score
Victims so far? Texas Tech Health, a U.S. edu corp, some legacy healthcare clowns, and Wayne County gov. Revenues from $80M to $2.2B. These ops ain’t nickel-and-dime phishing scams — these are scalpel-level cuts on bloated enterprises.
🧹 Stealth Mode
Interlock doesn’t just breach — they ghost.
- They wipe logs,
- nuke backups,
- cloak C2 chatter in legit traffic,
- and self-delete after the hit.
They don’t just leave through the backdoor — they uninstall the hallway.
📉 The Fallout
West Lothian was still in exam season when their whole education net got bricked. Council suits tried to downplay it, claiming “no sensitive data leaked” — but today’s breach dump says otherwise. Now they’re on damage control mode, calling up parents and teachers like it’s a PR fire drill.
🧒 Child Protection Risks?
Yep, they admitted it — some of the files might contain child-related data. They “took action.” Whether that’s real or legal-speak doesn’t matter now. Damage’s done. Data’s in the wild. Shadow indexed. Torrent seeded.
📞 What the Suits Say
Police Scotland and ICO are playing the same old track — “investigating,” “monitoring,” “looking into it.” Translation: they’re behind. Council reps are pushing apologies and cyber hygiene memos. But here’s the thing: no one listens to a firewall warning after the data’s already leaked to 12 forums and indexed by some AI scrapers in Kazakhstan.
🧠 Cyberdark’s Take
This ain’t just a school system hit — this is Interlock sending a love letter to institutions:
“Encrypt your sht or get exposed.”*
Digital ops ain’t safe. Trust no portal. Encrypt your life.
And if you’re still thinking your network’s “too small to hack”?
Buddy, you’re already compromised. You just don’t know it yet.
—
💀 Catch me on backnet hashchannel #VoidSpill for full leak analysis.
We decode. We decrypt. We don’t do mercy.
Stay sharp,
— Cyberdark
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