More than 1,400 US mayors have taken a stance against paying out ransoms to the cybercriminals that target their systems and data. The pledge to not pay comes as municipalities are being explicitly targeted by ransomware gangs. The resolution came just days after Lake City, a town of 12,000, paid $460,000 and weeks after Riviera Beach, Florida paid $600,000 to regain access to their respective systems. The US Conference of Mayors estimated that at least 170 county, city and state governments had suffered a ransomware attack since 2013.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/us-mayors-commit-to-just-saying-no-to-ransomware