A Ukrainian researcher leaked 60,000 messages from inside the Conti ransomware group. This is what they reveal.
. And while Conti’s ringleaders scrambled to retract their statement, it was too late. The damage had been done. Especially because the dozens of people with access to Conti’s files and internal chat systems included a Ukrainian cybersecurity researcher who had infiltrated the group. They proceeded to rip Conti wide open.60,000 chat messages
The Conti ransomware gang runs like any number of businesses around the world. It has multiple departments, from HR and administrators to coders and researchers. It has policies on how its hackers should process their code, and shares best practices to keep the group’s members hidden from law enforcement.
The main Conti team consisted of 62 people, Mango told Stern in the middle of 2021. The exact number of Conti members fluctuates over time—at some points reaching around 100—as people join and leave the group. In one instance Stern says they are thinking of recruiting 100 more participants. “The group is so big that there are still middle managers,” group member Revers tells Meatball in June 2021.
Money is a frequent subject of discussion within Conti—both a personal and group level. They debate the ransoms, often into millions of dollars, that they plan to charge businesses for providing them with decryption keys for their files. They discuss budgets available for buying equipment and the expenses of running physical offices and servers. “They also share a Google doc spreadsheet that contains a list of expenses,” Goody says of one instance.
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