Secrets of ransomware gang spilled after it announced support for Russia

Photo credit: CC0 Public Domain. Article by Jeff Stone and Jack Gillum, Bloomberg News. Tech Xplore – March 9, 2022.

On Feb. 25, a notorious ransomware group known as Conti expressed support for Russia as the country invaded Ukraine. It turned out to be a bad idea: days later, a massive trove of the gang’s secrets was leaked. The data contains details on specific hacking campaigns, Bitcoin wallets used by the gang and ruminations on the future of cryptocurrency as a tool for money laundering. In one chat message, a member of Conti expressed fury that someone associated with their group had targeted a website inside Russia […]

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