Inside Conti: The Ransomware Gang That Ran Like a Company with Geoff White
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Inside Conti: The Ransomware Gang That Ran Like a Company with Geoff White

B1IntermediateJuly 28, 202634 min

What does the world's most prolific cybercrime operation look like from the inside? And why does it operate suspiciously like a mid-sized tech company, complete with HR headaches, salary negotiations, and a distracted boss nobody respects? Ron Eddings sits down with investigative journalist and author, Geoff White, who has spent over 20 years covering cybercrime for the BBC, Channel 4 News, and Sky News. Geoff has read 47,000 of Conti’s 300,000 leaked internal chats, the gang that dominated the ransomware world in 2021 and 2022, pulling in hundreds of millions of dollars in ransoms. From the Moscow movie studio the gang's leader us...

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Conti, who are they exactly? The leading ransomware gang around the world. Hundreds of millions of dollars of ransoms paid to them. They are believed to be based mainly in the Russian Federation.

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They had affiliates operating all around the world. You said hundreds of millions, so that means everybody was walking away with probably tens of millions. Yes, in a single hit on a single victim,

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you could walk off with multiple millions. It was insanely lucrative. To make the kind of money this gang were making, the average Russian would have to work 400 years.

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