Visualizing Conti: Revealing the Business of Ransomware-as-a-Service through New Analytical Techniques
Update: 2025-06-01
Description
In this episode:
- How Estelle became involved in ransomware research between degrees
- The scale and origin of the ContiLeaks dataset
- Using machine learning and topic modelling to analyse criminal group communications
- What the internal chat data revealed about the organizational structure of Conti
- Surprising insights about roles, specializations, and tasking within a criminal enterprise
- Why making cybercrime research accessible through data visualization matters
About our guest:
Estelle Ruellan
Papers or resources mentioned in this episode:
Ruellan, E., Paquet-Clouston, M., & Garcia, S. (2024).Conti Inc.: understanding the internal discussions of a large ransomware-as-a-service operator with machine learning. Crime Science, 13, 16. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40163-024-00212-y
Flare Data Explorer – Explore cybercrime datasets visually:
https://flare.io/flare-data-explorer/
Other:
- Wikipedia – Conti (ransomware): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conti_(ransomware)
- Wikipedia – Topic model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_model
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