Among the financially motivated actors, the operators and affiliates of the ransomware-as-a-service LockBit are currently the biggest threat in Germany as well as worldwide. Together with the IT security authorities from the United States, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, France and New Zealand, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and U.S. Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), a joint report was published on 14 June 2023 to understand the modus operandi of these ransomware attackers and possible protective measures.