A former employee of cybersecurity incident response company DigitalMint was sentenced to 70 months in prison for targeting U.S. companies in BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware attacks.
The FBI linked the BlackCat ransomware gang to more than 60 breaches between November 2021 and March 2022, adding in a separate advisory that the cybercrime group had collected at least $300 million in ransom payments from more than 1,000 victims through September 2023.
41-year-old Angelo Martino was charged and pleaded guilty to his role in some of these attacks, along with two other Sygnia and DigitalMint ransomware negotiators, 28-year-old Kevin Tyler Martin and 33-year-old Ryan Clifford Goldberg.
Martin and Goldberg pleaded guilty in December to conspiracy to obstruct commerce by extortion and were also sentenced to four years in prison each in May.
While Martino was initially identified only as "Co-Conspirator 1" in an October 2025 indictment, he was named in court documents unsealed in March.
