"Ryan Clifford Goldberg, Kevin Tyler Martin, and an unnamed co-conspirator (aka "Co-Conspirator 1") based in Florida, all U.S. nationals, are said to have used the ransomware strain against a medical device company based in Tampa, Florida, a pharmaceutical company based in Maryland, a doctor's office based in California, an engineering company based in California, and a drone manufacturer based in Virginia."
"Goldberg was an incident response manager for cybersecurity company Sygnia. All three individuals are no longer working at the respective firms, with both DigitalMint and Sygnia stating they have cooperated with law enforcement on the matter. In July 2025, Bloomberg reported that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was looking into a former employee of DigitalMint for supposedly taking a cut from ransomware payments."
Federal prosecutors accused Ryan Clifford Goldberg, Kevin Tyler Martin, and an unnamed co-conspirator of using BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware to attack five U.S. companies between May and November 2023 and extort cryptocurrency payments. The victims included a Tampa medical device firm, a Maryland pharmaceutical company, a California doctor's office, a California engineering company, and a Virginia drone manufacturer. Martin and the co-conspirator worked as ransomware negotiators for DigitalMint; Goldberg was an incident response manager at Sygnia. The defendants are accused of unauthorized access, data theft, installing ransomware, demanding payments, and dividing illicit proceeds. One victim paid about $1,274,000 following an approximately $10,000,000 demand.
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