ACCORDING to the DoJ, two cybersecurity professionals—Ryan Goldberg, 40, of Georgia, and Kevin Martin, 36, of Texas—were sentenced to four years in prison for their roles in facilitating BlackCat ransomware attacks in 2023, having pleaded guilty in December 2025. They are accused of deploying the ransomware against multiple U.S. victims between April and December 2023, in conspiracy with Angelo Martino, 41, of Florida, who also pleaded guilty and is due to be sentenced in July 2026.
The three men reportedly agreed to pay ALPHV BlackCat administrators a 20% share of any ransoms in exchange for access to the extortion platform, and one extortion case allegedly saw about $1.2 million extorted in Bitcoin, with the trio splitting their 80% share in thirds. The DoJ noted that all three had worked in the cybersecurity industry, and Martino is said to have abused his negotiator role to extract higher payouts by leaking confidential insurance policy limits. Goldberg and Martin were employed by DigitalMint, while Goldberg had been an incident response manager at Sygnia.