Experts race to extract intel from Black Basta internal chat leaks

stapp · Feb 22, 2025

Hundreds of thousands of internal messages from the Black Basta ransomware gang were leaked by a Telegram user, prompting security researchers to bust out their best Russian translations post haste.
A user going by the name "ExploitWhispers" uploaded the chats in the form of a JSON file nearly 50MB in size to Mega, which has since removed the download link.
Alas, the cyber threat intelligence (CTI) community flocked to the rare trove of information to glean any and all insights they could. The problem: It's all in Russian, so translating every message and turning that into actionable intel will take some time.
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And for anyone wanting to scour the records themselves, the folks over at Hudson Rock have been quick to create what they're calling BlackBastaGPT – an interactive ChatGPT-powered tool allowing researchers to uncover details from the chats.
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https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/21/experts_race_to_extract_intel/

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