Thursday, 20 June 2019

Hit by ransomware, Florida city to pay hackers $600,000

The leaders of Riviera Beach, Florida met quietly this week for an extraordinary vote to pay nearly $600,000 in ransom to hackers who paralysed the city's computer systems. Riviera Beach became the latest government to be crippled by ransomware attacks that have successfully extorted municipalities and forced them to dig into public coffers to restore their networks.

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