{"id":12287,"date":"2026-04-21T21:28:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T21:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/ransomware-negotiator-pleads-guilty-blackcat-scheme\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T21:28:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T21:28:25","slug":"ransomware-negotiator-pleads-guilty-blackcat-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/ransomware-negotiator-pleads-guilty-blackcat-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware Negotiator Pleads Guilty to BlackCat Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Ransomware Negotiator Pleads Guilty to BlackCat Scheme<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A cautionary tale illustrates why the person negotiating should never be involved with any part of the ransom payment process, experts noted.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Alexander Culafi<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkreading.com\/insider-threats\/ransomware-negotiator-pleads-guilty-blackcat-scheme\">Go to gbhackers.com<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ransomware Negotiator Pleads Guilty to BlackCat Scheme A cautionary tale illustrates why the person negotiating should never be involved with any part of the ransom payment process, experts noted. Alexander Culafi Go to gbhackers.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[261],"class_list":["post-12287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-darkreading","tag-darkreading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}