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

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Podcast: [Cybercrimeology](https://stenobird.com/podcast/cybercrimeology-850766)
Published: 2025-06-01T04:00:00+00:00
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What can leaked internal messages from a ransomware group reveal about how cybercrime operations really work? In this episode, Estelle Ruellan discusses the analysis of the tens of thousands of chat messages leaked from the Conti ransomware group she created with colleagues. They to mapped the internal roles and communication patterns of this group using natural language processing and Latent Dirichlet Allocation analysis to better understand this notorious ransomware-as-a-service outfits. We explore this interesting analysis method, what it uncovered, and howMs Ruellan’s quest to make cybercrime more understandable with data visualization.

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