The crippling ransomware attack on Norsk Hydro may have been a state-backed attempt to disrupt rather than extort money, and as such provides a “blueprint” for how similar future campaigns may work, Dragos has warned. The security vendor’s principal adversary hunter, Joe Slowik, claimed in a new report that the new version of LockerGoga seen in the attack on the Norwegian aluminium giant last year could be a taste of things to come on the cyber-warfare battle front.

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