Angelo Martino is accused of playing both sides — committing attacks and conducting ransomware negotiations on some of the same cases on behalf of his former employer.
Silent probing uses AI to measure your team’s response patterns over time, building a behavioral profile that makes follow-on attacks harder to spot and easier to time.
Palo Alto Network’s incident response firm said identity-based attacks are exploding as poor security controls stretch across a widening mosaic of integrated tools and systems.
Ryan Goldberg and Kevin Martin were working at cybersecurity companies when they switched sides and hit five companies with ransomware attacks in 2023.
A corporate logo for Microsoft hangs above the door to its office building on 8th Avenue on June 24, 2025, in New York City. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)
Amazon’s Chief Security Officer Stephen Schmidt, center, talks with Danielle Ruderman, Senior Manager, Worldwide Security Specialists, AWS, and Lakshmi Raman, Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer for the Central Intelligence Agency, at the AWS Summit in Washington, D.C. on June 10, 2025. (Photo Courtesy of AWS)