Riveria Beach in Florida has been attacked with ransomware. Although the exact variant is unknown, the ransom demands were disclosed. According to city council members, the hackers requested a payment of $600,000 in order to decrypt the locked files. The city paid it, in an effort to restore their network as quickly as possible.
In addition to forking over hundreds of thousands of dollars, the city will also be paying over $1 million to replace the impacted devices.
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