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Atlanta spent at least $2.6 million on ransomware recovery

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Dissent

Zack Whittaker reports:

Atlanta spent more than $2.6 million on recovery efforts stemming from a ransomware attack, which crippled a sizable part of the city’s online services.

The city was hit by the notorious SamSam ransomware, which exploits a deserialization vulnerability in Java-based servers. The ransom was set at around $55,000 worth of bitcoin, a digital cryptocurrency that in recent weeks has wildy fluctated in price.

But it’s understood that the ransom was never paid — because the portal used to pay the ransom (even if the city wanted to) was pulled offline by the ransomware attacker.

Read more on ZDNet.

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