Ryuk Operator Pleads Guilty as BlackCat Negotiator Gets Prison Sentence
U.S. prosecutors announced two significant ransomware case outcomes: Armenian national Karen Serobovich Vardanyan pleaded guilty to conspiracy and computer fraud for helping compromise U.S. organizations and deploy Ryuk ransomware, while Florida resident Angelo Martino was sentenced to 70 months for assisting the BlackCat/ALPHV gang. Court records say Vardanyan provided initial access to victim networks between November 2019 and April 2020, with victims including a Michigan company, a technology firm in Wilsonville, Oregon, and a Texas school. Prosecutors linked Vardanyan and his co-conspirators to roughly 1,610 bitcoin in ransom payments, valued at about $15 million at the time. Vardanyan was arrested in Kyiv in April 2025, extradited to the United States in 2025, and now faces up to 15 years in prison, fines of $250,000 per charge, and more than $1.1 million in restitution; sentencing is scheduled for September 2026. In the separate BlackCat/ALPHV case, Martino was convicted for abusing his position as a ransomware negotiator to share confidential victim negotiation information with attackers, and his co-conspirators Ryan Goldberg and Kevin Martin had already received four-year prison terms. The cases underscore continued U.S. efforts to disrupt both ransomware operators and the support networks that enable extortion campaigns.. Fonte: https://mallory.ai/stories/019f4d36-dce5-75ea-904c-04dc8b8f6d93
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