KnowTechie reports:
Two former cybersecurity professionals have admitted they were secretly running ransomware attacks on the side.
According to an announcement this week from the US Department of Justice, Ryan Goldberg, 40, and Kevin Martin, 36, pleaded guilty to orchestrating a string of ransomware attacks in 2023 that netted them about $1.2 million in Bitcoin.
Here’s the part that makes security teams everywhere groan into their coffee: one of the defendants was literally a ransomware negotiator.
Martin and an unnamed co-conspirator worked at Digital Mint, a company that helps organizations survive ransomware attacks.
Goldberg, meanwhile, was an incident response manager at Sygnia Cybersecurity Services. Their day jobs involved cleaning up cybercrime. Their alleged night job was committing it.
Read more at KnowTechie.
