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Two American Cybersecurity Workers Jailed for BlackCat Ransomware Attacks

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Feed Name: Infosecurity Magazine (News)

Threat Score
75/100

Date Published: 2026-05-01

Date Updated: 2026-05-01

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Two former U.S. cybersecurity employees, Ryan Goldberg and Kevin Martin, were sentenced to four years in prison for helping the BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware gang carry out attacks in 2023, including facilitating ransom collections (one payment of about $1.2M in Bitcoin), splitting proceeds with the gang, and leaking healthcare patient data; prosecutors highlighted abuse of their professional skills and the FBI’s international efforts to apprehend them.

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