Cybersecurity Pros Plead Guilty to Ransomware Attacks

Two cybersecurity professionals, Ryan Clifford Goldberg and Kevin Martin, just pleaded guilty to launching the exact ransomware attacks they were hired to stop. One was an incident response manager at Sygnia. The other was a ransomware negotiator at DigitalMint. Together with a third accomplice, they attacked five U.S. companies using off the shelf malware.