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$1.1 million in two weeks - Florida cities pay out big to ransomware gangs
By Graham Cluley on Wed, 06/26/2019
Cybercriminals have learnt something very valuable in the last couple of weeks: in order to regain access to their data, cities in Florida are prepared to pay out huge Bitcoin ransoms to hackers. Less than a week after the city of Riviera Beach, 80 miles from Miami, unanimously voted to pay US $600,000 worth of Bitcoins to an extortionist who had...