Jan 15, 2026 · 11:15 PM · 100 Queens Quay East, Toronto
Syndicate: Inside the Life of a Ransomware Operator
Tammy Harper — DC416 relaunch
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Tammy Harper
Tammy tracks ransomware gangs for a living. Senior Threat Intelligence Researcher at Flare, Certified Dark Web Investigator. Her team mapped Black Basta's corporate structure from their leaked Matrix …
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Syndicate
The underground economy of cybercrime is a real economy. Affiliates, negotiators, developers, money launderers — each with their own incentives, tooling, and failure modes. Tammy Harper spends her days inside their forums and Matrix chats, and this talk walks through the pipeline from script kiddie to full-blown ransomware operator.
We look at leaked internal chats from Black Basta that her team mapped before law enforcement publicly named the leadership, and what those conversations tell us about how these groups actually run: the psychology, the paranoia, the economics, and why the whole business model is starting to crack.
DC416's relaunch event. Record-breaking snowstorm, room packed anyway.
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