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Norsk Hydro, One of the World's Largest Aluminum Producers, Switches To Manual Operations After Ransomware Infection (zdnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the growing-tension dept.

Norsk Hydro, one of the world's largest aluminum producers, said today it has "became victim of an extensive cyber-attack" that has crippled some of its infrastructure and forced it to switch to manual operations in some smelting locations. From a report: The cyber-attack was later identified as an infection with the LockerGoga ransomware strain, the company said during a press conference. News of the cyber-attack broke earlier this morning in a message the company sent to investors and stock exchanges. "Hydro became victim of an extensive cyber-attack in the early hours of Tuesday (CET), impacting operations in several of the company's business areas," the company said. "IT-systems in most business areas are impacted and Hydro is switching to manual operations as far as possible."

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  1. Re:Install vector? by geoscodin · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sadly, I've worked places where we got training every year and people still fell for test emails and flash drives left around the parking lot. The "It'll never happen to me" belief is strong in people, even after it happens to them.

  2. Re:Install vector? by smooth+wombat · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Within the last hour I've received a few emails from our overarching IT group indicating some people have clicked a link in a fake email going around. One of the user's accounts has been disabled.

    Like you, we all receive yearly training on what type of emails not to open or click links in yet people still do it.

    Here's the best part. This email was quarantined by default (Microsoft Exchange) and the user still went ahead and released it so they could read it.

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  3. Re:Maybe develop control systems in Linux not Wind by Ubi_NL · · Score: 4, Interesting

    it may not be sophisticated, but my guess is that their PCs have special hardware components and drivers to run their production equipment that are not available in WINE or linux or even Win7.

    These boxes should have been on sneakernet, it's really the only solution for something this important yet this vulnerable.

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  4. Re:Maybe develop control systems in Linux not Wind by Ubi_NL · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I still need to maintain a bunch of AT computers on MSDOS that run some old pipetting robots. It's how it goes.

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    If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.