Cybersecurity Staff Plead Guilty for Moonlighting as Hackers
Source: Bloomberg
Two former employees of cybersecurity companies pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal crimes for launching their own ransomware attacks in a plot to extort millions of dollars from victims around the US.
Ryan Clifford Goldberg, a former incident response supervisor at Sygnia Consulting Ltd., and Kevin Tyler Martin, who was a ransomware negotiator for DigitalMint, pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiracy to interfere with commerce by extortion, federal court records show. The pair acknowledged in the court filings that, along with a third person, they spent years trying to hack and extort businesses, in one instance receiving a ransom payment of more than $1 million in cryptocurrency from a Florida medical device company.
Laywers for Goldberg and Martin declined to comment. The third alleged conspirator hasn’t been charged in the case and isn’t named in the court records.
The trio worked in a part of the cybersecurity industry that has arisen to help companies negotiate with hackers to unfreeze their computer networks after an attack — sometimes by paying ransom. They were also accused of sharing their illicit profits with the developers of the ransomware program, known as ALPHV BlackCat, which they allegedly used to steal and encrypt the victims’ data.
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Another tool for the fascists to stay in charge here in the US. 
