As already mentioned in last week’s post despite the recent leak of internal communications and code from the Conti ransomware group, at the start of the Russia – Ukrainian war in late February 2022, Conti continued operations without breaking stride, in part thanks to constant technological innovation.
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As already predicted in a previous post about Conti, it did not take long for them to reappear in the spotlight of the news. Last week the ransomware gang claimed to be responsible for the cyberattack that hit a German manufacturer of wind turbines, Nordex. This attack happened on March 31, 2022. Nordex shut down its IT systems across multiple locations and business units as a preventive measure, trying to prevent the threat to spread across their networks. This week, Nordex announced that it was working on fully recovering operations after the attack.
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As discussed in my previous post, the Conti Files Part I, a big leak at the start of the war in Ukraine struck a serious blow to the Conti organization. Although there are still speculations about the reason behind the leak, most experts think the leak is related to Conti’s threat to attack Western targets in response to any cyber attacks on the Russian government or on the country’s critical infrastructure. This threat was not appreciated by some of their “ransomware-as-a-service” (RaaS) clients that ranged all over Eastern Europe, especially not the ones in Ukraine, and the files seem to be leaked by a Ukrainian security researcher.
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