What this is
extortion.wiki is an independent interface for browsing documented ransomware negotiations and archived ransom demands. Separate static pipelines make both collections stable and searchable without merging their statistics or rewriting primary-source content.
What this is not
This is not a ransomware marketplace, negotiation service, threat-actor fan page, or interactive crime simulator. The archive displays historical source material. Humanity has already supplied enough interaction.
Why preserve the records
Negotiation transcripts document dialogue and pressure tactics; ransom notes document demands, instructions, addresses, and campaign language. Both are easy to lose, mislabel, duplicate, or abandon in a folder named "final-final-2." Preservation reduces that particular form of scholarship.
Maintainers
The public archive is maintained under two pseudonymous handles and one involuntary volunteer. The portraits are deliberately non-biographical visual identifiers. The third maintainer is you. This was decided without a meeting, which already makes the governance process unusually efficient.
Maintains the public interface and occasionally convinces CSS to remain where it was placed.
Maintains the corpus and reproducible build process because apparently file formats do not normalize themselves.
You didn't apply. You weren't hired. You're just still here. That's the whole process.
Attribution
Negotiation data comes from Casualtek/Ransomchats; ransomware notes come from Zscaler ThreatLabz. Both source records and preserved license notices remain attached. extortion.wiki provides an independent reading and search interface and does not claim authorship of either collection.
Contact and corrections
Contact the archive through its official Session channel. A useful correction includes the page URL, actor, record ID, message number, source filename, and expected result. Check the methodology, dataset record, and research-use notice first. "It looks wrong" is a mood, not a reproducible report.