The Department of Justice announced the guilty pleas on Tuesday, saying 40-year-old Ryan Goldberg and 36-year-old Kevin Martin extorted $1. 2 million in Bitcoin from a medical device company and targeted several others.
Goldberg, Martin, and an unnamed co-conspirator were indicted for the attacks in October, which involved using ALPHV / BlackCat ransomware to encrypt and steal data from their victims. . As analysised by the Chicago Sun-Times, Martin and the third conspirator worked as …
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Two cybersecurity employees plead guilty to carrying out ransomware attacks.
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