Syndicate: Inside the Life of a Ransomware Operator
Speakers
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Tammy Harper
Senior Threat Intelligence Researcher at Flare. Certified Dark Web Investigator. Core contributor to RansomLook and Ransom-ISAC. Her team mapped Black Basta's internal corporate structure from leaked Matrix chats before law enforcement publicly named the leadership.
DC416’s relaunch night at Stan happened in a record-breaking snowstorm, and the room was packed anyway. Tammy Harper, a senior threat intelligence researcher at Flare, gave a talk on the life of a ransomware operator.
She went through leaked Black Basta chats showing offices in Moscow, HR, payroll and managers, plus a Fiverr worker making $20/week who had no idea he was doing recon for a ransomware gang. She also covered the Change Healthcare $22M ransom and the affiliate who never got paid. The angle was the human side, the psychology and the economics behind a business model that’s starting to crack. Stan sponsored the night.
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