Two Americans Sentenced to Prison for Using BlackCat Ransomware to Attack Multiple Entities

**Update:** Two U.S.-based security professionals, Ryan Goldberg and Kevin Martin, were sentenced to four years in prison for conspiring with ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware operators to deploy ransomware and extort multiple U.S. victims in 2023, paying the operators 20% of collected ransoms and laundering their share after successfully extorting roughly $1.2 million.