Two cybersecurity professionals sentenced to four years for involvement in ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware attacks

Colleagues, an important update for the cybersecurity community: the U.S. Department of Justice has sentenced two specialists to four years’ imprisonment for participating in ALPHV/BlackCat attacks in 2023.

- Investigators say they helped deploy the ransomware, split the ransom (one share ~ $1.2M in BTC) and laundered proceeds.
- Both worked in cybersecurity — their expertise was used to harm rather than protect.
- BlackCat operated as RaaS and affected hundreds of organisations; insider risk remains real.

Why it matters: strengthen privilege controls, auditing and employee vetting.

How are you improving defences against insider threats and privilege abuse?

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