Conti

Also known as Wizard Spider (operators)

Run like a company, with salaries and a help desk. It crippled Ireland's health service and drove Costa Rica to declare a national emergency, then broke apart in 2022 after its internal chats leaked.

What it is
Ransomware operation
Based
Russian-speaking
Active
2020–2022
Status
Defunct; split into successors

On the record

  1. May 2022 · ManageEngine

    Costa Rica declares a national emergency after Conti attacks on its ministries
  2. Sep 2021 · GovInfoSecurity

    Ireland's HSE puts the clean-up bill at $48 million so far, heading for about $110 million

In the ledger

2 outages listed

  • May 2021Ireland's Health Service: About €100 million. The HSE's projected total cost of response and recovery.
  • Apr 2022Government of Costa Rica: National emergency. Costa Rica declared a state of emergency over the attacks.
The St James’s Healthcare Campus sign in English and Irish in front of a red-brick hospital building
St James’s Hospital, Dublin, one of the HSE’s hospitals, 2019. Photo: Darren J. Prior, CC BY-SA 4.0.