Despite resolution not to give in to hackers’ ransom demands, some cities are still paying up after attacks

The City of Florence in Alabama has agreed to pay a ransom of US $300,000 worth of Bitcoin to hackers who compromised its computer systems and deployed ransomware. The city of Knoxville, Tennessee, has also been hit by a similar attack this week. The same DoppelPaymer ransomware has recently struck NASA contractor Digital Management Inc and previously hit the city of Torrance, in the South Bay region of Los Angeles. The risk when you give in to an extortionists ransomware demand is that you are encouraging other criminals to launch similar attacks.”]

Source: https://www.bitdefender.com/blog/hotforsecurity/despite-resolution-not-to-give-in-to-hackers-ransom-demands-some-cities-are-still-paying-up-after-attacks/