Prison Sentence for Ransomware Negotiator Who Betrayed His Clients
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A former ransomware negotiator for DigitalMint has been sentenced to 70 months in prison for conspiring with BlackCat ransomware threat actors to extort more than $75 million from five companies. Compounding the severity of his crimes is th
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