DOJ Sentences Two Americans to Prison for ALPHV BlackCat Attacks on U.S. Victims

Two cybersecurity professionals were sentenced for conducting ALPHV (BlackCat) ransomware attacks against U.S. businesses; the report describes BlackCat’s Rust-based, multi-OS ransomware, its ransomware-as-a-service model, common attack vectors (phishing, stolen credentials, exposed RDP), lateral movement and encryption behavior, the scale of impact (over 1,000 victims including healthcare), an insider-assisted escalation of demands, approximately $1.2M extorted in one case, and subsequent FBI actions including a decryption tool and site seizures.