More charges filed in Atlanta ransomware attack

StateScoop: The case against two Iranian men accused last month of carrying out costly ransomware attacks has expanded to one of the states hit hardest by the wave of cybercrimes.

Federal prosecutors in Georgia on Wednesday filed additional charges against Faramarz Shahi Savandi and Mohammed Mehdi Shah Mansouri, in connection to the March ransomware attack against Atlanta, which has cost the city government millions of dollars.

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