Two cybersecurity employees plead guilty to carrying out ransomware attacks

Two former employees at cybersecurity firms – one of whom was a ransomware negotiator – have pleaded guilty to carrying out a series of ransomware attacks in 2023. The Department of Justice announced the guilty pleas on Tuesday, saying 40-year-old Ryan Goldberg and 36-year-old Kevin Martin extorted $1.2 million in Bitcoin from a medical device company and targeted several others. Goldberg, Martin, and an unnamed co-conspirator were indicted for the attacks in October , which involved using ALPHV / BlackCat ransomware to encrypt and steal data from their victims.

As reported by the Chicago Sun-Times , Martin and the third conspirator worked as … Read the full story at The Verge.