A cache of 60,000 leaked chat messages and files from the notorious Conti ransomware group provides glimpses of how the criminal gang is well connected within Russia.
. “With the globalization of these ransomware groups, just because Conti leadership aligned well with Russian politics does not mean that the affiliates felt the same way,” Liska says. In one series of conversations dating back to August 2021, Spoon and Mango chatted about their experiences in Crimea. Russia invaded Crimea and annexed the region from Ukraine in 2014, a move that Western leaders say they. The area was beautiful, they said, but Spoon hadn’t visited for 10 years.
While members of the group reference Russian interests or government agencies, it's unlikely they are working on behalf of officials. Senior members of Conti may have contacts, but rank-and-file coders and programmers aren’t likely to be as well connected. “I think it's really a more limited subset of actors that actually might have those direct relationships, rather than group operations in its entirety,” Goody says.
Since Conti’s internal files were published on February 27 and 28, the group has continued to work. “They definitely reacted,” says Jérôme Segura, director of threat intelligence at the security firm Malwarebytes. “You can see from the chats that they were closing some stuff and switching to private chats. But it was really business as usual.” The group has continued to post the names and files of ransomware victims on its website in the weeks since the leak.
Conti’s hacking continues despite security researchers using the details in the Conti leaks to potentially name the group’s individual members. The greater threat to the group, however, could come from Russia’s government itself. On January 14, Russia took its most significant action yet against a ransomware gang. Theafter tip-offs from US officials, although the group had largely been dormant for several months.
It’s unclear whether authorities will take similar actions against Conti members. But they have been paranoid even before their details were leaked. In November 2021, Conti member Kagas sent a flustered message to Stern. “It seemed to us that we were being followed, as unfamiliar cars were standing in the yard, two bodies were sitting in the car,” they wrote. Kagas referenced a court case and that they would stop working until it was over.
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