Hydro with 35,000 employees with smelting plants, factories and offices in 40 countries – globally experienced a ransomware attack since Monday was forced to switch some systems to manual operation. The ransomware used might have been the relatively new and difficult-to-detect strain, dubbed LockerGoga, which criminals use to quickly encrypt computer files, before demanding payment to unlock them.
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