McAfee: Watch out for LockerGoga, a ransomware in the making

Ransomware infections generally may have trailed off but the LockerGoga ransomware and the chaos it caused for Norwegian metal maker Norsk Hyrdo shows that businesses can’t ignore the threat yet.  Business email compromise (BEC) and crypto-miners are now considered the main threats to consumers based on recent 2018 figures. But just like BEC fraud, which cost organizations $2.7bn in the US alone last year, according to the FBI’s latest figures, the threat of targeted ransomware attacks remains very real for large organizations.

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