{
  "id": 14025,
  "url": "https://www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/fbi-breaking-affiliate-trust-lockbit-takedown",
  "title": "FBI: Breaking Affiliate Trust Sped Along LockBit's Takedown",
  "summary": "An FBI agent explains how the mulitnational law-enforcement Operation Cronos was successful in disrupting the largest ransomware group of its time.",
  "authors": "Elizabeth Montalbano",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "regulation,agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-27T20:33:29.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-28T05:10:12.325Z",
  "source_slug": "x-dark-reading-ai-security",
  "source_name": "Dark Reading (AI security)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.darkreading.com",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/14025",
  "original_url": "https://www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/fbi-breaking-affiliate-trust-lockbit-takedown",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}