Cybersecurity Staff Plead Guilty for Moonlighting as Hackers (2)

Two former employees of cybersecurity companies pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal crimes for launching their own ransomware attacks in a plot to extort millions of dollars from victims around the US.

Ryan Clifford Goldberg, a former incident response supervisor at Sygnia Consulting Ltd., and Kevin Tyler Martin, who was a ransomware negotiator for DigitalMint, pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiracy to interfere with commerce by extortion, federal court records show. The pair acknowledged in the court filings that, along with a third person, they spent years trying to hack and extort businesses, in one instance receiving ...