Ransomware negotiator hired to represent victims was working for the attackers
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一名前勒索软件谈判员因与BlackCat诈骗团伙勾结，向受雇保护的受害者进行敲诈，于昨日被判处70个月监禁。佛罗里达州居民Angelo Martino在DigitalMint公司担任谈判员，本应帮助客户降低赎金，却向网络犯罪分子提供机密谈判信息以最大化赎金，并从中分成。五名受害者共支付超过7500万美元赎金，其中部分因Martino泄露信息而被抬高。Mart
A former ransomware negotiator was sentenced to 70 months in prison yesterday after colluding with BlackCat scammers to extort the victims he was hired to protect.
As a ransomware negotiator for the company DigitalMint, Florida resident Angelo Martino's job was "to negotiate with cybercriminals to mitigate the ransoms paid by [DigitalMint's] clients," the US government said in a sentencing memorandum on Tuesday. "Instead, Martino provided the cybercriminals with confidential negotiation information to maximize the ransoms in exchange for a portion of the ransom payments. Five of the victims whom Martino was supposed to help paid over $75 million to ransomware affiliates, including likely millions of dollars in ransom demands inflated as a result of the confidential information provided by Martino."
Martino, 41, pleaded guilty and asked for a 24-month sentence, noting that he "provided substantial assistance that contributed to the indictment and conviction of two co-defendants." As described in this November 2025 article, the co-defendants were Texas resident Kevin Martin, a ransomware negotiator for DigitalMint, and Georgia resident Ryan Goldberg, an incident manager at security firm Sygnia.
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