News article – Tyler Technologies pays ransom to obtain decryption keys!

Tyler Technologies, Inc. is the largest provider of software to the United States public sector.
On September 23rd, Tyler Technologies announced they had suffered a ransomware attack and its customers reported finding suspicious logins and previously unseen remote access tools on their networks.
IT was reported that hackers breached the internal network of the company and deployed the malware.
Security researchers have speculated that, Tyler Technologies were exposed to ‘The RansomEXX’, which is a human-operated ransomware, this means that attackers manually infected the systems after gained access to the target network.
According to BleepingComputer, which cited a source informed on the event, Tyler Technologies paid a ransom of an unspecified amount to receive the decryption key and recover encrypted files.
It is speculated that the senior management of Tyler technologies reluctantly paid the unspecified ransom as many school districts, court systems, and local and statement governments in the United States uses Tyler Technologies software.

References: https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/109334/cyber-crime/tyler-technologies-paid-ransom.html