Third ransomware pro pleads guilty to cybercrime U-turn • The Register

The third of three former ransomware negotiators accused of assisting the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang in extorting US businesses has pleaded guilty, months after his two co-workers did the same. Angelo Martino, 41, was a former ransomware negotiator at what is only referred to in court documents as Company-1 – Chicago-based incident response company DigitalMint. The…

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House Republican 'would not be surprised' if foreign adversaries to blame for dead, missing US scientists

Rep. Eric Burlison (R-Mo.), who sits on the House Oversight Committee, said late Monday that he would “not be surprised” if foreign adversaries were responsible for the mysterious deaths and disappearances of nearly a dozen American scientists over the past few years. “I would not be surprised if our adversaries —China, Russia, Iran, or any……

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