// Ransomware Negotiation Transcript
lockbit3.0 Ransomware Negotiation — Redacted Organisation
// Context
About This Negotiation
This transcript documents a lockbit3.0 ransomware negotiation with a redacted victim organisation. The negotiation consisted of 17 messages exchanged over 1 days, beginning on 2022-07-26.
The initial ransom demand was $1.0M. The final outcome is not confirmed in the transcript.
// Primary Source
Full Transcript — Verbatim
Reproduced from Casualtek's Ransomchats archive. URLs have been redacted.
Victim names are shown only where the breach was publicly reported in mainstream media. Any organisation wishing their name redacted can contact us at enquiries@binary-response.com — we will act promptly.
[Chat started]
hello
Are you ready to negotiate?
Price decrypt 3 000 000$
Hello
are you here ?
yes
we wait your answer and your offers
3 000 000$ is too much whats your best offer ?
well, given that your network was not completely infected, we can drop the price to 1,000,000
Also keep in mind that we have stolen your data and can publish it at any time
[REDACTED URL]
We offer you to decrypt all your files as well as files of your hypervisors for 1 million
You are a fairly large company and it will not be a problem for you to collect such an amount
[redacted] - BTC Wallet
It's up to you to pay or not, we also backed up your SQL databases before overwriting and encrypting them so they're safe
ur offer is that you make a payment of exactly $ 1,000,000 and we give you a full set of decoders for both ESXi and the Windows family
// Analysis
Analyst Observations
- LockBit 3.0 was the most prolific ransomware group of 2022-2023, responsible for more attacks than any other group. Their infrastructure was taken down by Operation Cronos in February 2024.
- → LockBit 3.0 threat actor profile — TTPs, ransom demands, and active campaigns.