LAND O'LAKES RANSOMWARE NEGOTIATOR WHO EXTORTED AND ATTACKED MULTIPLE U.S. VICTIMS SENTENCED TO PRISON

WASHINGTON, July 9 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:

MIAMI - Angelo Martino, 41, of Land O'Lakes, formerly employed as a ransomware negotiator, was sentenced today to 70 months for his role in conspiring with Blackcat/ALPHV (BlackCat) actors to extort multiple victims, as well as conspiring with other former cybersecurity professionals to attack additional victims in 2023.

"Angelo Martino's victims shared heartbreaking accounts of how their businesses were nearly destroyed, while the people they hired to help them instead betrayed them to ransomware gangs," said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department's Criminal Division. "...