
The SamSam ransomware is a dotnet executable. and that’s before demanding $51,000 from the City of Atlanta last week. The total earning of the ransomware was estimated as nearly $850,000. And an unnamed ICS (Industrial Control Systems) company in the U.S.



The strain of ransomware was determined to be Samas ransomware (also known as ‘SamSam’ or ‘Samsa’). On March 22, 2018, the City of Atlanta, Georgia was struck by a ransomware attack that crippled municipals systems and forced the city’s IT team to verify every machine’s integrity.
