‘I can fight with a keyboard’: How one Ukrainian IT specialist exposed a notorious Russian ransomware gang

As Russ­ian artillery began rain­ing down on his home­land last month, one Ukrain­ian com­put­er researcher decid­ed to fight back the best way he knew how — by sab­o­tag­ing one of the most for­mi­da­ble ran­somware gangs in Rus­sia. Four days into Rus­si­a’s inva­sion, the researcher began pub­lish­ing the biggest leak ever of files and data from Con­ti, a syndicate…

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