{"id":208521,"date":"2026-05-04T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/cybersecurity-professionals-sentenced-to-prison-for-ransomware-attacks\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T11:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:15:09","slug":"cybersecurity-professionals-sentenced-to-prison-for-ransomware-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/cybersecurity-professionals-sentenced-to-prison-for-ransomware-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity Professionals Sentenced to Prison for Ransomware Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securitymagazine.com\/articles\/102285-cybersecurity-professionals-sentenced-to-prison-for-ransomware-attacks\">Cybersecurity Professionals Sentenced to Prison for Ransomware Attacks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securitymagazine.com\/articles\/102285-cybersecurity-professionals-sentenced-to-prison-for-ransomware-attacks\">https:\/\/www.securitymagazine.com\/articles\/102285-cybersecurity-professionals-sentenced-to-prison-for-ransomware-attacks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-04 11:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.securitymagazine.com\">www.securitymagazine.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: <a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. On Apr. 30, two American cybersecurity professionals were imprisoned for their role in a string of 2023 ransomware attacks.\u00a0Ryan Goldberg, 40, of Georgia, and Kevin Martin, 36, of Texas, were sentenced for conspiracy to impede, delay, or impact commerce through extortion in connection with these attacks.\u00a0Goldberg and Martin (along with a third co-conspirator, Angelo Martino, 41, of Florida) deployed the\u00a0ALPHV BlackCat ransomware between\u00a0April 2023 and December 2023 and targeted victims throughout the United States, agreeing to pay a 20% ransom share to the administrators of ALPHV BlackCat. Upon extorting one victim for\u00a0$1.2 million in Bitcoin, the three divided their 80% into thirds and laundered it.\u00a0All three men worked in the cybersecurity industry, giving them unique insights into perpetuating these cybercrimes.\u00a0\u201cThe court\u2019s sentences today reflect the damage that these defendants inflicted during their cyberattacks on victim companies throughout the United States,\u201d comments the Justice Department\u2019s Criminal Division<br \/>\nAssistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva. \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. They also split the ransoms they were paid, and laundered the illicit proceeds. These 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<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity Professionals Sentenced to Prison for Ransomware Attacks https:\/\/www.securitymagazine.com\/articles\/102285-cybersecurity-professionals-sentenced-to-prison-for-ransomware-attacks Publish Date: 2026-05-04 11:00:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.securitymagazine.com\/ext\/resources\/2026\/05\/04\/Gavel-by-Sasun-Bughdaryan.png?height=635&t=1777904232&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-208521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208521"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208523,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208521\/revisions\/208523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}