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Former ransomware negotiator pleads guilty to BlackCat attacks
41-year-old Angelo Martino, a former employee of cybersecurity incident response company DigitalMint, has pleaded guilty to targeting U.S. companies in BlackCat (ALPHV) ransomware attacks in 2023.
Together with two other Sygnia and DigitalMint ransomware negotiators (33-year-old Ryan Clifford Goldberg and 28-year-old Kevin Tyler Martin), Martino was charged with conspiracy to interfere with interstate commerce by extortion, interference with interstate commerce by extortion, and intentional damage to protected computers.
Martino was initially identified only as “Co-Conspirator 1” in an October 2025 indictment, but was named in court documents unsealed in March. Martin and Goldberg also pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obstruct commerce by extortion and are facing up to 20 years in prison each.
UK probes Telegram, teen chat sites over CSAM sharing concerns
Ofcom, the United Kingdom’s independent communications regulator, has launched an investigation into Telegram based on evidence suggesting it’s being used to share child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
The investigation was launched under the UK’s Online Safety Act to examine whether the social media and instant messaging (IM) service is complying with its illegal content safety duties, which require it to prevent CSAM from being shared.
Ofcom says it received evidence regarding the alleged presence and sharing of CSAM on Telegram from the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, and that it had also conducted its own assessment of the platform.