{"id":2007,"date":"2025-12-30T22:32:27","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/two-cybersecurity-employees-plead-guilty-to-carrying-out-ransomware-attacks\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T22:32:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T18:32:27","slug":"two-cybersecurity-employees-plead-guilty-to-carrying-out-ransomware-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/two-cybersecurity-employees-plead-guilty-to-carrying-out-ransomware-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Two cybersecurity employees plead guilty to carrying out ransomware attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/chorus\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/23318435\/akrales_220309_4977_0232.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Two former employees at cybersecurity firms &#8211; one of whom was a ransomware negotiator &#8211; have pleaded guilty to carrying out a series of ransomware attacks in 2023. The Department of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/two-americans-plead-guilty-targeting-multiple-us-victims-using-alphv-blackcat-ransomware\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced the guilty pleas<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Goldberg, Martin, and an unnamed co-conspirator <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/11\/03\/doj-accuses-us-ransomware-negotiators-of-launching-their-own-ransomware-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were indicted for the attacks in October<\/a>, which involved using ALPHV \/ BlackCat ransomware to encrypt and steal data from their victims. As <a href=\"https:\/\/chicago.suntimes.com\/the-watchdogs\/2025\/11\/02\/crytpo-cryptocurrency-crime-chicago-digital-mint-ransom-ransomware-hack\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported by the <em>Chicago Sun-Times<\/em><\/a>, Martin and the third conspirator worked as \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/851467\/cybersecurity-employees-plead-guilty-alphv-blackcat-ransomware\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two former employees at cybersecurity firms &#8211; one of whom was a ransomware negotiator &#8211; have pleaded guilty to carrying [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}