City of Coweta refuses to pay ransom after system-wide cyberattack

An update on the ransomware attack affecting the City of Coweta: the city manager has been through a ransomware attack before with another city, and reports that after they paid, they were reinfected weeks later, so Coweta will not be paying any ransom demands. Threat actors who don’t keep their word do spoil it for... Source

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