US School Agrees To Pay $8,500 To Get Rid Of Ransomware (softpedia.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Earlier this week, the media was abuzz with the case of the Hollywood hospital that almost shut down its operations because of a ransomware infection, which it eventually paid. Something similar happened around the same time in a South Carolina school district when ransomware shut down an elementary school's servers. The school had to pay $8,500.

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Re:It is not a good idea to pay extortionists

[ShanghaiBill]

You start paying, they find more targets, make their scam more professional, etc.

That isn't all bad. In the past, insecure systems were hijacked and used as spam-bots, so the cost of the insecurity was borne by others. At least with ransomware the cost is borne directly by the bozos running MS-Windows on their servers.