One of the world's largest aluminum producers to switch work to 'manual' due to ransomware

by Philipp Katzenberger

' Norsk Hydro ', one of the world's largest aluminum producers, said that a massive cyber attack would cause some systems to become dysfunctional, forcing many operations to be switched to manual operation A situation has occurred.

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Norsk Hydro's cyber attack was revealed by a message the company made to investors and stock exchanges. The message says, 'Norsk Hydro is at the expense of a massive cyber attack in the early hours of Tuesday, and our global business areas are affected by operations.' It also states that 'IT systems in most business areas are affected, and Norsk Hydro switches operations to manual operation as much as possible.'

Later, Norsk Hydro has updated its Facebook page to report on cyber attacks. Here, “Norsk Hydro was subject to widespread cyber attacks late on Monday night. However, the attacks did not affect people's safety. Norsk Hydro's priorities set off the effects of the attacks. Limiting and continuously securing people's security, as cyber-attacks affect different areas of the world's business, Norsk Hydro switches manual operations as much as possible. For example, Norsk Hydro's power plants are usually operated by an independent IT system, but are now operated manually. ' It is clear.

In addition, Norsk Hydro is holding a press conference to publicly explain that it has become the target of cyber-attacks. The state of the press conference can be viewed as a movie from the following page. Among them, it is clear that cyber attack is due to ransomware, and it is also clear that one of the employees noticed the infection at around 0 o'clock.

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Norsk Hydro also said, “The cyber attack has made the situation in Norsk Hydro very severe. The entire network worldwide is down, affecting our production and office operations. Production Due to a lack of ability to directly connect to the system, there are production problems and some plants have been temporarily suspended. ' In addition, it is Ransomware 'LockerGoga' that was used for the attack of Norsk Hydro.

According to the Norwegian media NRK Norge , the Norwegian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) warns all local businesses of the dangers of LockerGoga ransomware.

After the cyber-attack, the official site of Norsk Hydro remains down, and a message published for investors remains on the page. Norsk Hydro is expected to recover from the effects of cyber attacks within a week.

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Norsk Hydro is one of the world's largest aluminum producers and operates in more than 50 countries around the world. The company is based in Oslo, Norway, but in 2018, Chinese hackers hacked its cloud service provider, Visma, and experienced two large-scale cyber attacks.