Mysterious Leaker Outs Conti Ransomware Kingpins

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The leaks include thousands of chat logs, personal videos, and ransom negotiations tied to some of the most notorious cyber-extortion gangs -believed to have raked in billions from companies, hospitals, and individuals worldwide.

It's part of his "fight against an organized society of criminals known worldwide," GangExposed told The Register via Signal chat. He claims that he's not interested in the $10 million bounty that the Feds have put up for information about one key Conti leader that he's already named, as well as a second that he says will soon be identified on Telegram.

"I take pleasure in thinking I can rid society of at least some of them," GangExposed said. "I simply enjoy solving the most complex cases."

After creating his latest Telegram channel on May 5 - GangExposed says two earlier accounts were shut down days ago - he published his first "revelation" and outed Stern, the leader of Trickbot and Conti, as 36-year-old Russian named Vitaly Nikolaevich Kovalev. Stern's identity was later confirmed by German police.

A couple of days later, GangExposed claimed to identify another key Conti crim who goes by Professor as Vladimir Viktorovich Kvitko, a 39-year-old Russian national who reportedly relocated from Moscow to Dubai. According to chat logs and other communications leaked by GangExposed, Kvitko and other Conti leaders moved to Dubai in 2020 and set up shop in the United Arab Emirates to continue their cyberattacks against Western organizations.

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