As I wrap up my “know thy cyber-enemy” series, I have saved the “best” for last. Having emerged in late 2020, the CONTI hacker group is a relatively new player in the shadowy world of cybercrime.

When the officiating assignments for this year’s college football season came out, Catherine “Cat” Conti didn’t flinch. “Everyone saw the assignments, everyone saw I was assigned a Big 12 game,” Conti ...

The world of cybercrime saw some notable changes over the past year: new darknet marketplaces took the place of the shut down Hydra and operators of the notorious Conti ransomware group rebranded ...

For months, members of Conti—among the most ruthless of the dozens of ransomware gangs in existence—gloated about publicly sharing the data they stole from the victims they hacked. Now, members are ...

The Conti ransomware gang is still actively running campaigns against victims around the world, despite the inner workings of the group being revealed by data leaks. One of the most prolific ...

A decryption tool for a modified version of the Conti ransomware could help hundreds of victims recover their files for free. The utility works with data encrypted with a strain of the ransomware that ...