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Title: Ex-Cybersecurity Staff Charged With Moonlighting as Hackers

Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/11/04/19112...

Three employees at cybersecurity companies spent years moonlighting as
criminal hackers, launching their own ransomware attacks in a plot to extort
millions of dollars from victims around the country, US prosecutors alleged
in court filings. From a report: Ryan Clifford Goldberg, a former incident
response supervisor at Sygnia Consulting, and Kevin Tyler Martin, who was a
ransomware negotiator for DigitalMint, were charged with working together to
hack five businesses starting in May 2023. In one instance, they, along with
a third person, received a ransom payment of nearly $1.3 million worth of
cryptocurrency from a medical device company based in Tampa, Florida,
according to prosecutors. The trio worked in a part of the cybersecurity
industry that has sprung up to help companies negotiate with hackers to
unfreeze their computer networks -- sometimes by paying ransom. They are also
accused of sharing their illicit profits with the developers of the type of
ransomware they allegedly used on their victims. DigitalMint informed some
customers about the charges last week, according to a document seen by
Bloomberg News. The other person who was allegedly involved in the scheme was
also a ransomware negotiator at the same firm as Martin but wasn't charged,
according to court records. The person wasn't identified in court records,
nor were the companies that were the defendants' former employers. Sygnia
confirmed Goldberg had worked there. Martin last year gave a talk at a law
school, which listed him as an employee of DigitalMint.

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