The 35-year-old faces up to 10 years in jail and authorities announced an $11 million reward for information on his alleged co-conspirator who remains at large.
Ryan Goldberg and Kevin Martin were working at cybersecurity companies when they switched sides and hit five companies with ransomware attacks in 2023.
Attacker interest in the vulnerability is magnified by an unparalleled number of publicly available exploits, earning the defect the highest verified public exploit count of any CVE…
Payments declined one-third to $734M, yet the number of victims confronting ransomware still remains a largely unchanged epidemic, sliding just 2% last year.
Sen. Bill Casssidy, R-La., questions Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. during a Senate Finance Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Sept. 4, 2025. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)