Two former cybersecurity specialists, Ryan Goldberg of Georgia and Kevin Martin of Texas, were sentenced to four years in federal prison each on April 30, 2026, for a conspiracy to extort U.S. victims with the ALPHV BlackCat ransomware. The charges stem from attacks between April and December 2023, in which the men, along with co‑conspirator Angelo Martino of Florida, deployed the ransomware against more than 1,000 victims worldwide. They received a 20% cut of the ransoms, and after extracting about $1.2 million in Bitcoin from a single victim, the trio divided the remaining 80% and laundered the proceeds. The sentencing followed earlier guilty pleas in December 2025 and December 2023. The case was prosecuted by the DOJ’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section and the Southern District of Florida.
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