Two Cybersecurity Professionals Get 4-Year Sentences in BlackCat Ransomware Attacks

The U.S. Department of Justice sentenced two cybersecurity professionals to four years in prison for their roles in facilitating BlackCat ransomware attacks between April and December 2023.

• •Ryan Goldberg (Sygnia incident response manager) and Kevin Martin collaborated with Angelo Martino to deploy ransomware against multiple U.S. victims
• •The defendants paid ALPHV BlackCat administrators 20% of ransoms in exchange for access to the ransomware and extortion platform
• •One victim was successfully extorted for approximately $1.2 million in Bitcoin, with the defendants splitting their 80% share three ways
• •All three perpetrators worked in the cybersecurity industry, exploiting specialized knowledge to compromise rather than protect systems
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