Former incident responders Ryan Clifford Goldberg and Kevin Tyler Martin have pleaded guilty to participating in a series of ransomware attacks while working at cybersecurity firms tasked with helping organizations recover from such incidents. The case highlights a rare instance of trusted professionals abusing their positions to commit cybercrime, causing significant damage to multiple organizations in 2023.
Goldberg, formerly a manager of incident response at Sygnia, and Martin, a ransomware negotiator at DigitalMint, collaborated with an unnamed co-conspirator to carry out ransomware attacks using the ALPHV (BlackCat) ransomware variant. According to federal court records, the total losses caused by their actions exceeded $9.5 million. The attacks targeted a medical company in Florida, a pharmaceutical firm in Maryland, a California doctor’s office, an engineering company in California, and a drone manufacturer in Virginia.
The indictment revealed that the trio received nearly $1.3 million in ransom payments from the Florida medical company in May 2023, but were unable to extort payments from the other victims. The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware, first identified in late 2021, has been linked to numerous attacks on critical infrastructure providers, including th
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