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Ex-Incident Response Staff Indicted for BlackCat Attacks

🔒 Three former incident response employees from DigitalMint and Sygnia have been indicted for allegedly carrying out ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware attacks on five U.S. companies between May and November 2023. Prosecutors say the defendants accessed networks, exfiltrated data, deployed encryption malware, and demanded ransoms ranging from $300,000 to $10 million, with one victim paying $1.27 million. Two named defendants face federal extortion and computer-damage charges that carry up to 20 and 10 years in prison respectively.