Two Cybersecurity Professionals Get 4-Year Sentences in BlackCat Ransomware Attacks
Summary: The U.S. Department of Justice announced that Ryan Goldberg, 40, of Georgia, and Kevin Martin, 36, of Texas, were each sentenced to four years in prison for deploying BlackCat ransomware against multiple U.S. victims between April and December 2023. The two, who pleaded guilty in December 2025, conspired with Angelo Martino, 41, of Florida, to pay ALPHV BlackCat administrators a 20% share of ransoms in exchange for access to the ransomware and extortion platform, and in one case extorted roughly $1.2 million in Bitcoin.
What's compelling: All three men worked in the cybersecurity industry - Martin and Martino at DigitalMint, Goldberg as an incident response manager at Sygnia - and Martino allegedly used his role as a negotiator to share victims' insurance policy limits with BlackCat operators to extract higher payouts.
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