Visualizing Conti: Revealing the Business of Ransomware-as-a-Service through New Analytical Techniques
Cybercrimeology1 Jun 2025

Visualizing Conti: Revealing the Business of Ransomware-as-a-Service through New Analytical Techniques

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/

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