{"id":12299,"date":"2026-04-22T07:03:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/ransomware-negotiator-pleads-guilty-to-html\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T07:03:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:03:28","slug":"ransomware-negotiator-pleads-guilty-to-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/ransomware-negotiator-pleads-guilty-to-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Ransomware Negotiator Pleads Guilty to Aiding BlackCat Attacks in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Ransomware Negotiator Pleads Guilty to Aiding BlackCat Attacks in 2023<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A third individual who was employed as a ransomware negotiator has pleaded guilty to conducting ransomware attacks against U.S. companies in 2023.<br \/>\nAngelo Martino, 41, of Land O&#8217;Lakes, Florida, teamed up with the operators of the BlackCat ransomware starting in April 2023 to assist the e-crime gang in extracting higher amounts as ransoms.<br \/>\n&#8220;Working as a negotiator on behalf of five different<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/ransomware-negotiator-pleads-guilty-to.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ransomware Negotiator Pleads Guilty to Aiding BlackCat Attacks in 2023 A third individual who was employed as a ransomware negotiator has pleaded guilty to conducting ransomware attacks against U.S. companies in 2023. Angelo Martino, 41, of Land O&#8217;Lakes, Florida, teamed up with the operators of the BlackCat ransomware starting in April 2023 to assist the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-12299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12299"}],"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=12299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}