The Riviera Beach City Council voted unanimously this week to pay the hackers’ demands, believing the Palm Beach suburb had no choice if it wanted to retrieve its records, which the hackers encrypted. … According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, ransomware is the fastest growing malware threat…

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