Talos Takes Ep. #67: What a leaked playbook tells us about the Conti ransomware group
Summary: A disgruntled member of the Conti ransomware-as-a-service group leaked the group's playbook in August, and a Cisco Talos team including David Liebenberg and Azim Khodjibaev translated the entire document by hand into English. On Talos Takes episode 67, the two discuss what they learned from the translation project and how attackers' human sides are starting to show.
What you should know: A single disgruntled insider handed researchers the full operating playbook of a ransomware-as-a-service group, and it took a hand translation to read it - the same insider risk and language barrier cuts both ways for the groups running these operations.
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