The world’s largest beef producer, JBS USA, has confirmed they paid an $11 million ransom after the REvil ransomware operation initially demanded $22.5 million. JBS was forced to shut down some of its food production sites after the operation breached their network and encrypted some of their North American and Australian IT systems. The company said they paid the ransom to prevent their stolen data from being publicly leaked and mitigate possible technical issues. The ransom was paid in bitcoin before the threat actors provided proof of stolen data in a negotiation chat.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/jbs-paid-11-million-to-revil-ransomware-225m-first-demanded/