3 Human-Driven Ransomware
On March 8, 2019, Hilde Merete Aasheim became president and CEO of Norsk Hydro, an aluminum and renewable energy company based in Norway.1 Eleven days later, she woke up to a 4 am call from her security team.
“We are under serious cyberattack. This is not an exercise,” they told her. “You had better come to work.”
Upon her arrival, she learned that 170 Norsk Hydro sites had been hit with a ransomware now known by the name GoGalocker. Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts a victim’s data in an effort to extort money from them. This attack often begins with an email that releases a payload on the victim’s ...
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