--- title: Former ransomware negotiator gets 4 years for BlackCat... description: Angelo Martino, a former DigitalMint cybersecurity incident response employee, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for participating in BlackCat (ALPHV)... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/former-ransomware-negotiator-gets-4-years-for-blackcat-attacks-gtuvnnv8s twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Former ransomware negotiator gets 4 years for BlackCat attacks | daily.dev og:description: Angelo Martino, a former DigitalMint cybersecurity incident response employee, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for participating in BlackCat (ALPHV)... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/former-ransomware-negotiator-gets-4-years-for-blackcat-attacks-gtuvnnv8s og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/gtuVNNV8S.png og:image:alt: Former ransomware negotiator gets 4 years for BlackCat attacks og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Former ransomware negotiator gets 4 years for BlackCat attacks **[BleepingComputer](https://daily.dev/sources/bleepingcomputer)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Angelo Martino, a former DigitalMint cybersecurity incident response employee, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for participating in BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware attacks against U.S. organizations. Martino, along with two other former ransomware negotiators from Sygnia and DigitalMint, acted as BlackCat affiliates between April 2023 and April 2025, demanding ransoms and threatening to leak stolen data. Martino also betrayed victims by sharing their insurance policy limits and negotiation positions with BlackCat operators to maximize extortion payouts. Victims included a financial services firm that paid $25.6 million and a nonprofit that paid $26.8 million. His co-conspirators Kevin Martin and Ryan Goldberg were each sentenced to four years in prison in May. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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