City of Cartersville Admits Paying Ryuk Ransomware Operators $380,000

The City of Cartersville in Georgia, Georgia, was infected with cyber-ransomware in May last year. The cybercrooks reportedly used Ryuk ransomware in the attack. The city recovered within a week, but only after paying the hackers $380,000 in non-tradable Bitcoins to unlock its systems. The case is under investigation by the FBI. The City has migrated to a new email filtering provider, added monitoring software and implemented a new protocol to help personnel weed out malicious emails from their inboxes”]

Source: https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/city-of-cartersville-admits-paying-ryuk-ransomware-operators-380000/