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2019-06-27 05:51:57

Florida under-siege: another city gets ambushed by hackers for crypto ransom

Florida, the beach capital of USA, has been in news lately, not for its raging beach adventures, but for a devastating row of scams crippling the state’s IT systems. Florida – the city of scams? For the second time in a row, another city in Florida, the Lake City, has fallen into the wrong hands and cost the city four hundred sixty thousand dollars ($460,000) worth of bitcoins in ransom. This time, however, the city made the decision to offer payout immediately as the hackers froze their access to emails and telephones completely. Not too long ago, Florida’s Riviera Beach