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Ransomware Negotiator Gets 70 Months in Prison for Aiding BlackCat Attacks

ID: e23b0b7e-76d4-5335-b652-ff9f6b5d62bd

STIX ID: report--e23b0b7e-76d4-5335-b652-ff9f6b5d62bd

Feed Name: The Hacker News

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2026-07-10

Date Updated: 2026-07-18

Author: [email protected] (The Hacker News)

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A former ransomware negotiator, Angelo Martino, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to approximately 70 months in prison for conspiring with BlackCat operators to extort multiple U.S. victims by providing attackers with confidential negotiation and insurance information and for colluding with two other cybersecurity professionals to deploy BlackCat ransomware; law enforcement has seized about $10 million in assets and co-conspirators received multi-year prison sentences.

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