Rogue Cyber Defenders: Ransomware Sentences Rock Hiring Trust

The Signal

Picture this: you hire elite firefighters to save your house, only to find out they're the ones slipping in at night to torch the place. That's the gut-punch reality from a fresh U.S. Justice Department announcement. Ryan Goldberg, a former incident response manager at cybersecurity firm Sygnia, and Kevin Martin, a ransomware negotiator at DigitalMint, each drew four-year prison sentences for moonlighting as ransomware crooks. As CyberScoop details, the pair pleaded guilty last...