In this episode:How Estelle became involved in ransomware research between degreesThe scale and origin of the ContiLeaks datasetUsing machine learning and topic modelling to analyse criminal group communicationsWhat the internal chat data revealed about the organizational structure of ContiSurprising insights about roles, specializations, and tasking within a criminal enterpriseWhy making cybercrime research accessible through data visualization mattersAbout our guest:Estelle Ruellanhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/estelle-ruellan/Papers or resources mentioned in this episode:Ruellan, E., Paquet-Clouston, M., & Garcia, S. (2024).Conti Inc.: understanding the internal discussions of a large ransomware-as-a-service operator with machine learning. Crime Science, 13, 16. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40163-024-00212-yFlare Data Explorer – Explore cybercrime datasets visually:https://flare.io/flare-data-explorer/Other:Wikipedia – Conti (ransomware): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conti_(ransomware)Wikipedia – Topic model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_model

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