After the attack, we have been working on to isolate and neutralize the virus. All installations are isolated and it does not seem to have affected us outside Norway, ” says Norsk Hydro’s chief financial officer Eivind Kallevik at a press conference.
According to the Kallevik has no security issues have arisen as a result of the assault, which, however, turns out the computers and complicates administration and production.
At 21 on Tuesday night low Hydro’s website is still down.
A representative for Hydro’s plant in Høyanger tells Norwegian E24 that the work continued on Tuesday, albeit in more primitive forms than usual.
“We were, among other things, had to look up pen, paper and calculator to do the calculations,” he says.
the tv channel NRK, the Norwegian agency for cybersecurity, Norcert, warned partners to Hydro been subjected to an attack with a virus called ”Lockergoga”, that make all of the content on an infected computer inaccessible. At the same time carried out attacks against the company’s user and login system.
A representative of the authority, in connection with the press release that this is one hypothesis of several that are used in the work with the attack.
the Attack was launched according to the task at midnight. A marknadseffekt of cyberattacken is that aluminum is powered up just over 1 percent to its highest level in three months. Norsk Hydro’s share is falling at the same time, by 1.5 per cent on the Oslo stock exchange after initially falling over 3 per cent.
employees in 40 countries, manufactures a wide range of aluminium products – including the car and construction industries. Several smelters in Norway, Qatar and Brazil are powered after the attack manually.
” We are working to resolve the situation, the safety of our employees and mitigate the economic impact. We do everything we can to limit the impact for our customers, ” said Kallevik.
IT-security Tomas Sundström notes that the attack on the Norsk Hydro receives great attention because of the size of the company.
– However, very many businesses are already infected and have this problem all the time, it unusual is that it reaches the press, ” says Sundström, consultant at Arbor Networks.
was directed in January against the French teknikkonsultfirman Altran Technologies.
no matter which company it comes to an attack, according to Sundström, is inevitable in the long run – especially if it moves about an interesting object.
” In this case seems to Hydro in the metal industry, so I can imagine that SSAB and other companies have exactly the same problem.
The most important measure for Norsk Hydro, now, is to see which computers are infected, isolate them and find the backups, according to Sundström.
Norsk Hydro says it has already have isolated the infected computers, and no plants outside Norway has been affected, according to news agency NTB.
– Yes, absolutely. It goes on all the time, we’re just not particularly aware of it, ” says Sundström.
