Former Cybersecurity Professionals Admit Guilt in Ransomware Attacks

Former cybersecurity professionals Ryan Clifford Goldberg and Kevin Tyler Martin pleaded guilty on December 19, 2025 for their involvement in a series of ransomware attacks carried out in 2023. While employed at cybersecurity firms, they collaborated with an unnamed co-conspirator to compromise victim networks and deploy ransomware, abusing the trust placed in them by the organizations they were meant to protect; the report provides limited technical detail and no indicators of compromise.