{"id":238007,"date":"2026-04-30T19:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/former-incident-responders-sentenced-to-4-years-in-prison-for-committing-ransomware-attacks\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T16:25:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:25:23","slug":"former-incident-responders-sentenced-to-4-years-in-prison-for-committing-ransomware-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/former-incident-responders-sentenced-to-4-years-in-prison-for-committing-ransomware-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Former incident responders sentenced to 4 years in prison for committing ransomware attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former incident responders sentenced to 4 years in prison for committing ransomware attacks<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-04-30 19:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: cyberscoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Two former cybersecurity professionals who moonlighted as cybercriminals, committing a series of ransomware attacks in 2023, were each sentenced to four years in prison, the Justice Department said Thursday.<\/p>\n

Ryan Clifford Goldberg and Kevin Tyler Martin previously pleaded guilty to one of three charges brought against them in December and faced up to 20 years behind bars.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Goldberg, who was a manager of incident response at Sygnia, and Martin, a ransomware negotiator at DigitalMint at the time, collaborated with Angelo John Martino III to attack victim computers and networks and use ALPHV, also known as BlackCat, ransomware to extort payments.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese defendants exploited specialized cybersecurity knowledge not to protect victims, but to extort them,\u201d Jason A. Reding Qui\u00f1ones, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, said in a statement. \u201cThey used ransomware to lock down critical systems, steal sensitive data, and pressure American businesses into paying to regain access to their own information.\u201d<\/p>\n

Victims impacted by the attacks Goldberg and Martin participated in over a six-month period in 2023 included a medical company based in Florida, a pharmaceutical company based in Maryland, a California doctor\u2019s office, an engineering company based in California and a drone manufacturer in Virginia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey harmed important firms who were providing medical and engineering services. They played hardball with them, going so far as to cause the leak of patient data from a doctor\u2019s office victim,\u201d A. Tysen Duva, assistant attorney general of the Justice Department\u2019s criminal division, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese were supposed to be cybersecurity specialists who did good and helped businesses and people. Instead, they used their high-level cyber skills to feed their greed. Ransomware attackers like this should be punished and removed from society to serve their lawful sentences so they cannot harm others,\u201d Duva…<\/p>\n

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