Cybersecurity Negotiator Gets 70 Months for Helping BlackCat Extort Victims

#### Executive summary A former ransomware negotiator, Angelo Martino, was sentenced to 70 months for conspiring with the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group after using privileged access at an incident response firm to pass confidential victim negotiation information to operators; the scheme led to at least one $1.2M ransom payment, multi-million dollar asset seizures, and contributed to BlackCat extortion activity that law enforcement later disrupted.