Oh, the irony! Conti ransomware, which leaked ransomware victims’ information, has its personal information leaked

What’s scrumptious irony to the cybersecurity group at giant is a troubling embarrassment to a ransomware gang.

The infamous Conti ransomware group, which nailed its colors to the mast by publicly saying its assist for Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, and threatened to launch cyber assaults in opposition to anybody who focused Russia, has had its personal information leaked.

Oh how embarrassing for the legal gang who extorted hundreds of thousands from companies by threatening to leak their information, that somebody leaked some 160,000 messages between their members in addition to their malware supply code.

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I used to be a lot of many infosecurity commentators who was contacted through an nameless electronic mail on February 27, with a hyperlink to logs of the Conti group’s inner chats.

An electronic mail which signed off with the cry of “Glory to Ukraine!” gave a “pleasant heads-up” had “misplaced all their shit”:

Additional materials has since been leaked from the @ContiLeaks Twitter account, regarded as run by a Ukrainian safety researcher.

In the event you don’t have the time or inclination to learn the previous few years’ inner chat logs of a ransomware gang I can absolutely perceive. Fortunately investigative journalist Brian Krebs has written a sequence of articles analysing the Conti group’s chats in some element.

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